Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.The Amor Fest: Mucho Mucho AmorWe have to confess: we’d never heard of Walter Mercado, the internationally-famous Spanish language psychic, before the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
That’s where we first caught Mucho Mucho Amor, the documentary biopic of Mercado’s life, and where we fell in love with his unique mix of glamour, camp and positivity.
Unlike the charlatan psychics we’re used to here in the US, Mercado’s fortune-telling felt more like life coaching rather than predictions for the future.