Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two teenage children. Still grieving the death of his father, a destructive figure in his life, Colm struggles with his relationship to his own son, whilst at work a recent takeover threatens his job. Unable to share his vulnerability with his wife, Colm’s world is falling apart around him. In the midst of this crisis, Colm finds a comfort that no one else can provide but Jay.
리알토, 时日回光, Риалто, ריאלטו
Italy
Venice International Film Festival
South Korea
Busan International Film Festival
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Italy
South Korea
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What at first appears to be a story about a married man's involvement with a male sex worker turns into a story of a man who's on a midlife downward spiral after the death of his abusive father. A character study of a depressed and repressed Irish man, it's sad and has hardly any light moments.
We met Colm (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor), a worker at a Dublin shipping yard whose job is in jeopardy after a larger company takes his firm over. He has a wife and young adult children but is estranged from them. A chance encounter with a 19-year old hustler who basically robs him in a restroom awakens a repressed sexuality and also (illogically) is seen by him…
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Thoughts from the Venice premiere:
Unforgivingly bleak mid-life crisis / queer closet drama with a few tender moments scattered throughout (I especially liked Colm's relationship with his daughter). There's some (questionable?) psychosexual mirroring in the theme of fatherhood between Colm's relationship with his son and that with Jay, whom he solicits sex from, which I'm not sure how to unpack. However, the film feels mature and sensitive in its subject matter, especially in the small cracks of Jay's backstory that open up towards the end of the film.
The direction is good, although the camera focuses almost squarely on Colm in dialogue that you never get a sense of what other characters are feeling. I get that the focus is…
If a midlife crisis involves staring at Tom Glynn Carney and calling him beautiful all day long then I fear I’ve been having a midlife crisis since months
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Tom Glynn Carney is a such beautiful man even when he is playing a chav and I really respect that
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yellow is the warmest colour in this Irish film about a man who goes through a midlife crisis and begins an affair with a young man, thus setting him on a journey of self discovery.
Rialto is complex and sensitive but there's this layer of harshness that adds this beautiful authentic texture to the film.
it makes Colm's words carry so much weight and meaning. i love it's exploration of Colm and this new found strangeness he has going on in his life, and the treatment of his sexuality.
Colm is so disconnected from himself and his family that he tries to cling on to the little piece of joy (even if it's sexual)
at first glance Rialto seems like those romance films but it's rather a lovely character study about a man questioning in his sexuality as his masculinity is slowly disintegrating.
beautiful work.
Men will hire sex workers and have trysts in dodgy hotels, leave their wives at home after promising to take them out on dates, and invite their dead father’s mistress to his funeral instead of going to therapy
