Winner of both prizes awarded in the Next category of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “I Carry You With Me” tells the true story of an undocumented gay couple from Mexico who risk their lives for love, liberty and the American Dream. Making her first foray into narrative filmmaking, documentary helmer Heidi Ewing began the project as a vérité portrait of her real-life subjects, Ivan and Gerardo, but cast actors to play the two men in reenactments of their early life — both as children and later, at the moment they met and fell in love.I Carry You with Me 2021 Full Movie Download
LGBTQ movies out of Mexico are rare, and the idea to combine two styles of filmmaking is unique, but Ewing’s approach needs more cohesiveness. The narrative scenes are shot in a way that makes it hard to stay committed throughout, and the actors don’t seem to be playing the same two people we’re allowed to observe in the present, isolated in New York City and unable to visit the families they left behind in Mexico for fear of being deported.When the film opens in Puebla City, Mexico, aspiring chef Ivan (Armando Espitia) is stuck washing dishes and fixing toilets despite the fact he has a culinary school diploma.
There’s no room for advancement at his current job, so to ease his sorrows, he sneaks out to a secret club with his best friend Sandra (Michelle Rodriguez). There he meets openly gay Gerardo (Christian Vasquez), who is a bit more experienced and excited to discover a fresh face in the crowd. Despite a romantic evening together, Ivan and Gerardo’s attraction is tentative at first, in part because Ivan has a child from a previous relationship, and if his suspicious ex ever found out he was gay, she could prevent Ivan from ever seeing his son again.