Enigmatic and silent Gus arrives in a city in upstate New York, to a hotel where he is staying for a day, while developing meticulous grooming and cleaning routines and expect a phone call that can change your life.
Direction
Bellott turns a hotel room into a pressure cooker of masculinity.
Acting
Valenzuela's silence screams—every gesture is a confession.
Cinematography
Clinical close-ups that make grooming feel like self-surgery.
Director
Rodrigo Bellott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bellott shot this in his actual apartment over 48 hours with basically no budget, which explains why the room feels authentically lived-in and suffocating.
Released in 2009, this predates the 'lonely man in a room' indie wave (Locke, The Whale) but remains obscure—partly because its explicit queerness made distribution a nightmare.
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