Mexico City in the '80s? 'Everything was so forbidden that it made it feel special. There was this real underground, this creative explosion. I wanted to make a film about those groups of people' says Director Hari Sama in a Q&A with cmonstah
, where they played music. At le Neuf, the owner — he was a French guy — loved art and he opened it to performance and gay culture. It was very theatrical. You’d be seeing all of these pansexual people in these outfits. It didn’t matter if you were male or female, everyone had their eyes painted. It would go on until 8 in the morning.But I also drew from a meaningful trip I made to New York City with my brother.
Xabiani Ponce de León as Carlos, left, with José Antonio Toledano as Gera, center, and Ximena Romo as Rita in a scene that takes place at the Aztec nightclub in"This Is Not Berlin."At some point I met a family that was a very important family to me. They had a composer father from Scandinavia who was a crazy intellectual. And they had a gay friend who had been to the Neuf. So we went and they let us in. And we were like,is this? We were like hippies.
This club opened the doors to all of the outcasts in the city. So it was very important. I don’t think it housed more than 200 people. It was very small. I came to know all of these people there — my best friend from the time, he was a painter and he died in 1990 or ’91. I have one of his paintings in the film.It’s been crazy. We started shooting in the suburbs, with what would have been my house, and I started feeling very moved. It was very intense.
Looking back, the size of this — it was very small. In Madrid, there were like 20 clubs. We had le Neuf. It was aNot rated
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