Post Tenebras Lux
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Tom Keogh
Reygadas' jagged, broken-logic drama lurches from fantasy to earthbound complications, though it is often hard to tell one from the other.
Stanley Kauffmann
The result calls for a viewing as different as looking at a Vermeer against Rothko or de Kooning or multiple other modern painters.
Peter Keough
Along with Bela Tarr and Terrence Malick, Carlos Reygadas is one of today's few genuinely religious filmmakers.
Robert Abele
Moviegoers beholden to clean narrative may feel they need their own explanatory GPS and audio guide. But the richer reward lies in allowing oneself to be led by this gifted director's instinct for...
J. R. Jones
This one delivers a grand pictorialism and piercing existential moments that float atop the maundering narrative like noodles in soup.
Justin Gerard
One of the best films I've seen This movie should be seen more than once, and after some time has passed. The filming is gorgeous and unique. Every shot is beautiful and meaningful. Although the different scenes don't follow a conventional storyline, everything is connected, and as Piero Scaruffi writes, "intensely metaphorical [...] somewhere between Lynch and Tarkovsky territories."
Critic reviews
Tom Keogh
Reygadas' jagged, broken-logic drama lurches from fantasy to earthbound complications, though it is often hard to tell one from the other.
Stanley Kauffmann
The result calls for a viewing as different as looking at a Vermeer against Rothko or de Kooning or multiple other modern painters.
Peter Keough
Along with Bela Tarr and Terrence Malick, Carlos Reygadas is one of today's few genuinely religious filmmakers.
Robert Abele
Moviegoers beholden to clean narrative may feel they need their own explanatory GPS and audio guide. But the richer reward lies in allowing oneself to be led by this gifted director's instinct for...
J. R. Jones
This one delivers a grand pictorialism and piercing existential moments that float atop the maundering narrative like noodles in soup.
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One of the best films I've seen This movie should be seen more than once, and after some time has passed. The filming is gorgeous and unique. Every shot is beautiful and meaningful. Although the different scenes don't follow a conventional storyline, everything is connected, and as Piero Scaruffi writes, "intensely metaphorical [...] somewhere between Lynch and Tarkovsky territories."
Cast and credits
Actors | Adolfo Jinénez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres, Rut Reygadas, Eleazar Reygadas |
Producers | Jaime Romandía, Carlos Reygadas |
Director | Carlos Reygadas |
Writers | Carlos Reygadas |
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Run time
114 minutes
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