They just can’t quit each other, but this is no Brokeback romance. I Carry You with Me (★★★★☆) tells a moving true story of two men loving each other fiercely and defiantly, ultimately risking it all on the prospect of creating a future together.Iván (Armando Espitia), an aspiring chef from Mexico City, and Gerardo (Christian Vázquez), a grad student raised on a ranch in Chiapas, meet in 1994 at a gay dive bar in Puebla, talking through the night until morning bells chime at a nearby convent.
They fall fast in love, but Iván, recently separated from the mother of his young son, is afraid to live openly. People will talk in this town, where the pair are verbally and physically harassed on the streets, and he worries that his ex, Paola.