In the Grayscale

"Love is never just black and white."

2015 1h 41m ES

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★6.1TMDB · 60★6.4IMDB · 2,811

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Synopsis

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Bruno is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in Santiago city. Motivated by this professional challenge, Bruno feels he can find a twist in his life by a vocational route. He start working with a young history teacher named Fer who is agile, energetic, captivating and gay. Starts between them an unexpected and intense romance. At this point he must decide his path. The biggest learning: simplicity is the best way to get up again.

“Love is never just black and white.”

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Cast

Francisco Celhay
Bruno
Emilio Edwards
Fer
Daniela Ramírez
Soledad
Matías Torres
Daniel
Marcial Tagle
Schulz
Sergio Hernández
Toto

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Claudio Marcone
Writers: Rodrigo Antonio Norero
Languages: Spanish
Countries: Chile

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ERA

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Released 11 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Claudio Marcone, shot by Andrés Jordán. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Darío Segui. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Felipe Gálvez shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Francisco Celhay and Emilio Edwards and Daniela Ramírez carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Love is never just black and white.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt4097612 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Only 60 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Claudio Marcone directs. Andrés Jordán behind the camera. Darío Segui scores. Felipe Gálvez cuts. Produced in Chile. Dialogue in Spanish.

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1Released 11 years ago.
2Directed by Claudio Marcone, shot by Andrés Jordán. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Darío Segui. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Felipe Gálvez shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Francisco Celhay and Emilio Edwards and Daniela Ramírez carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Love is never just black and white.".
7IMDB entry: tt4097612 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 60 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Andrés Jordán
Original score: Darío Segui
Editing: Felipe Gálvez
Runtime: 101 min · 1h 41m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: ES
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: In the Grayscale (2015)
IMDB rating: 6.4/10 · 2,811 votes
MPAA: Unrated

Awards

2 wins & 4 nominations

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CinemaSerf2026-10-05
★ 6/10
"Bruno" (Francisco Celhay) would appear to have all he needs in life. He's an architect with a wife and a son - but his glass isn't half full. He moves out of his family home to get himself together and simultaneously gets himself a commission to design something of a landmark for his home city of Santiago in Chile. It's this process that introduces him to the enthusiastic history teacher "Fer" (Emilio Edwards) who combines his job with being quite an entertaining tourist guide. This latter lad is gay and is a little perplexed when he bumps into "Bruno" in a gay bar. "Bruno" rather lamely explains that away, but "Fer" isn't convinced - and, actually, neither are we - and so what now ensues sees these two men get to know each other better and allows for "Bruno" to do some internal fact-finding. It is a little on the slow side this, and the plot leaves very little room for any jeopardy - but there is something to be said for the emerging chemistry between Celhay and the engaging Edwards, and combined with some photography of their city leaves us with an amiable enough germ of a story about choices and decisions. I could probably have done without the soul-searching elements of life with wife "Soledad" (Daniela Ramírez) as that melodramatises things a little, but this is yet another example of South American gay cinema where being homo/bisexual isn't really an issue for anyone apart from the man concerned and that demonstrates that any attribution of "identity" needn't neccessarily be straightforward or consistent! Worth a look.

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