Filmmaker Marco Berger's straightforward drama (allegedly a comedy-drama, but opinions may vary) is released as a revelation that "toxic masculinity" can occur in LGBTQ settings as well. But this is a point made early, often, and adults-only graphic.
For Christmas and the New Year, an Argentinian twentysomething, Artur (Iván Masliah) has allowed ten or so male peers over to spend the holidays indolently at the family villa. These are sex-and-sports-and-drugs fixated upscale young guys, mostly near-naked and no-body-fat types, luxuriating in their decadent prime (and evident affluence), mostly poolside.
They brag about prolific and sexual conquests with females, but with no women visiting until the halfway point, the characters mostly engage in macho locker-room antics and erotic play with each other. They either simulate sex (or drunkenly have the real thing), and one of these alphas, Nico (Bruno Giganti) enjoys texting explicit photos of men-on-men poses to the girlfriends out there.
What's with the horror movie ending? The most startling thing is that many viewers could be caught unaware there was an actual plot developing. If explicit nudity and pansexuality are not a turn-off to conservative collections, the title makes an optional choice for broad-minded and tolerant international cinema and queer-eyed shelves.
A Spanish coming-of-age sex dramedy from 2000, Nico and Dani (AKA Krampack) had a similar premise, but streamlined down to a couple of Beavis/Butt-head-esque teenage boys in sometimes-hilarious denial about their mutual attraction, as they creatively coped with the girls never being around and available when they were, uh, in the mood.