This is an indy european film so I predicted it would probably either suck or I would probably just not understand it but I was extremely wrong. "Land of Storms" is a very powerful movie without even doing much. There's barely any dialoge and the action is reduced to the minimum, yet it doesn't feel dull or boring at all. In fact it got my attention from start to finish. The ending was very Shakespearean! All in all, I will definetly recommend this movie as it's based on a true story and you see how cruel the world actually is and how love sometimes is destined to die in it.

This isn't the first and it will not be the last of these gay themed/homophobic inspired films. American and Foreign filmmakers have been making films like this since the start of movie making; for self-serving reasons.I give it 2 stars for the typical/manipulative casting of good looking young lead actors to lure in gay viewers as well as the "curious" religious fanatics and/or homophobic viewers to revel in for various reasons.As for the story/plot and that old fashioned tragic (homophobic) ending, I give it "thumbs down"/no points because we've seen 1000's of other pointless pseudo gay films with similar "so called love" stories with a predictable tragic ending to appease the homophobic viewers as well as those self-loathing souls that live to hate anything or anyone that look, live and act different than they do.I never explain the story/plot in my reviews because the synopsis is always available with the film details above. Also because I hate reviews that waste time trying to explain the plot when most of us already know what the film is about or at least have an understanding of it.

Despite me giving a 10 out of 10, I didn't like the movie. I only gave it such a high grade because I don't see any flaws in it, its writing is rather good.But before I dwell on the film itself, let me make a mini rant. Why do almost all gay romance movies feature the exact same structure? Two guys fall in love, they never had experience with the same sex before. One of them is more out and open-minded and accepts his feelings easily. The other is more 'masculine', probably dates a girl or has a wife and kids, and he denies his feelings. The out one pursues the other like a stalker with no self-respect and call it love. In the end, usually, the 'masculine' rejects the love. Most of the time, the effeminate dies. Other common elements are the homophobic society and absurd lack of ability of the characters to talk. I mean, why do they always talk so little, only a few small sentences. Why is it always so vague and sometimes cryptic? Is it some sort of artistic design I don't understand, but they all share? End of mini-rant.The movie is sweet and moves along at a nice pace. I got to say that happens more in this movie than in most of gay-themed movies. It shows very nicely how society can be cruel and how love is beautiful and then people ruin it. It felt, to me, like a period piece, I mean the village or whatever in which the story happens seems so outdated, but it might be the portrayal of existing rural places I've never been to. But they don't even talk about being gay, they talk about "being like that" and other vague sentences. I thought specially interesting how Aron's character is written. I also thought it would make more sense for him to suicide after killing his lover, at least from my point of view. It is also stated the movi is based on a real story. If it is, then the ending could not be changed. In this case, throughout its extension, the file lacked a 'punch', it would be more effective if it was more emotional and not so clean. Maybe the real story is not so gruesome too, but still the movie seems softon graphics, even if heavy on deepth. Ending my so-called review, I'd like to see this move, and others, being more original. But I guess you can't ask much of a movie made outside a big movie industry, which I'll bet it is the case.

This is a quiet Hungarian movie about Szabi, a gay lad from rural Hungary. He befriends a guy on his soccer team in Germany (Bernard), but then gets sent home when they have a fight in the shower. Now back in his grandfather's old house in the country, he runs into Áron, a beautiful, handy young man who helps him repair the old house he's living in. One thing leads to the next, and he and Áron enter into a relationship. Áron is confused but eventually accepts his gayness. At this point Bernard shows up again, and things get complicated. He was in love with Szabi all along. Inexplicably forgetting all about gorgeous Áron, Szabi hops into bed with Bernard. However, after some awkward moments, in the end Szabi chooses local boy Áron (of course!) After seeing these beautiful young men in this idyllic setting, one wonders why everyone goes to Budapest when the action seems to be out here.The themes here are coming out, finding love and homophobia. Yes, the same themes as Brokeback Mountain. Parents and the town find out about it all, and their reactions are not positive at all, especially towards Áron. Things get ugly and violent and tragic.I thought the whole thing was very well done, and fairly interesting, although a little on the melancholy side. This is not a zippy American production. It's very much an Hungarian movie but I suspect Hungarians might cringe at this portrayal. I think it's important to remember that if the film had been set in Budapest, the story would have had a very different outcome. Rural Hungary here is a moral landscape, like Brokeback Mountain or an American small town in the 1950s.It's sometimes hard to dispel the mistaken notion that gay people lead tragic, doomed lives. Movies like this don't exactly help. However, a movie about happy gay people leading ordinary lives wouldn't be much of a movie. There wouldn't be any story or character development.At least now we understand that the tragedy befalls them not because they're gay (e.g. the sex things are shown quite positively and beautifully in this movie), but because of homophobia. This movie has that message too. It seems to be a story that filmmakers need to tell over and over again, in different settings and in different contexts. Bad things happen to gay people, yes, but it's not because they're gay. It's because they are persecuted. If Shakespeare were alive, he'd be telling the same story. It's too perfect.