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Mario [Sub: Eng]
Two young football players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
June 27, 1973 in Olten, Switzerland
9 June 1972, Chur, Switzerland
August 14, 2018
This absorbing film sneaks up on viewers and packs an emotional wallop.
April 04, 2018
Mario touches on these fears perfectly, not just for the main characters, but the entire ensemble. Uncertainness is universal, along with the pursuit of happiness.
July 12, 2018
Although it feels rather overlong, it's packed with powerful moments.
October 27, 2018
The tender romance at the center of the film is driven in large part by Hubacher, who shows a great deal of emotional brevity from start to finish.
July 12, 2018
A committed central performance and a controversial subject...mostly left unexplored in cinema, as it is in life, are the two main reasons to see this earnest, if slightly overlong melodrama.
November 01, 2018
Mario tackles the stigma of being a gay man in professional soccer with remarkable realism and heart, with what could have been excessively melodramatic or exploitative.
September 27, 2018
A smart, sexy and heartbreaking drama that reminds us that coming out is very different for everyone.
July 11, 2018
At two hours, the film feels a little long, but this is a heartfelt and human drama with the texture of truth and characters to care about.
October 30, 2018
...captures the pressures put on young athletes to conform and avoid anything that might hurt their chances to advance...
October 27, 2018
Slow-moving gay soccer romance that covers familiar ground within its novel sports setting.
February 11, 2019
Its heart may be in the right place, but the underdeveloped screenplay stumbles and limps to full time.
May 31, 2018
Familiar but moving.

