Post Tenebras Lux
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Written by Carlos Reygadas
Mexico/France, 2012
The body of work put forth by Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas has been nothing short of polarizing. At 42, and now with four features under his belt, Reygadas has been earmarked as one of the most ambitious and daring filmmakers working in modern cinema and in the arthouse. With his latest, Post Tenebras Lux (Latin for After Darkness, Light), his status grows; this very personal and seemingly scattered autobiographical account should further mystify the Reygadas faithful and detractors alike. As a symbol of creative ambition, few come close to matching Reygadas, an artist unaware of boundaries and safe zones within the medium. His cinema, and especially Post Tenebras Lux, is miraculous, almost overwhelmingly flowing with flaws and passion. For better or worse, his natural instincts depict a constant beauty amid tragedy and turmoil.
Reygadas sure knows how to open a film,...
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Written by Carlos Reygadas
Mexico/France, 2012
The body of work put forth by Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas has been nothing short of polarizing. At 42, and now with four features under his belt, Reygadas has been earmarked as one of the most ambitious and daring filmmakers working in modern cinema and in the arthouse. With his latest, Post Tenebras Lux (Latin for After Darkness, Light), his status grows; this very personal and seemingly scattered autobiographical account should further mystify the Reygadas faithful and detractors alike. As a symbol of creative ambition, few come close to matching Reygadas, an artist unaware of boundaries and safe zones within the medium. His cinema, and especially Post Tenebras Lux, is miraculous, almost overwhelmingly flowing with flaws and passion. For better or worse, his natural instincts depict a constant beauty amid tragedy and turmoil.
Reygadas sure knows how to open a film,...
- 6/30/2013
- by Ty Landis
- SoundOnSight
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Post Tenebras Lux (18)
(Carlos Reygadas, 2012, Mex/Fra/Neth/Ger) Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres. 115 mins
Terence Malick gone a bit mainstream for you? Then try this latest litmus test, in which Mexican auteur Reygadas takes his penchant for striking imagery and disjointed narratives to commendably ambitious/infuriatingly inscrutable extremes. Centred on a troubled architect and his family, it's a shuffled jigsaw puzzle involving class tensions, rugby, swingers' parties and an animated Satan.
Jack The Giant Slayer (12A)
(Bryan Singer, 2013, Us) Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor. 114 mins
Another souped-up fairytale offering commercially calibrated spectacle rather than genuine wonder. The promising cast and giant budget amount to a hill of beans.
Reality (15)
(Matteo Garrone, 2012, Ita/Fra) Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli. 116 mins
TV's celebrity culture exuberantly satirised,...
Post Tenebras Lux (18)
(Carlos Reygadas, 2012, Mex/Fra/Neth/Ger) Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres. 115 mins
Terence Malick gone a bit mainstream for you? Then try this latest litmus test, in which Mexican auteur Reygadas takes his penchant for striking imagery and disjointed narratives to commendably ambitious/infuriatingly inscrutable extremes. Centred on a troubled architect and his family, it's a shuffled jigsaw puzzle involving class tensions, rugby, swingers' parties and an animated Satan.
Jack The Giant Slayer (12A)
(Bryan Singer, 2013, Us) Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor. 114 mins
Another souped-up fairytale offering commercially calibrated spectacle rather than genuine wonder. The promising cast and giant budget amount to a hill of beans.
Reality (15)
(Matteo Garrone, 2012, Ita/Fra) Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli. 116 mins
TV's celebrity culture exuberantly satirised,...
- 3/23/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This Mexican tale of an unlikely friendship contains many contradictions and more than a few enigmas, but somehow it works
Brilliant and provocative, shallow and preposterous: the two wings of Carlos Reygadas's film-making personality are clearly, even oppressively apparent in his new movie. For my money, it is captivating and exasperating at a ratio of around 60:40. Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) and Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) are a well-to-do Mexican couple with two children who now live in the remote countryside, where Juan has formed a friendship with a local repairman nicknamed El Siete, or Seven (Willebaldo Torres). El Siete once installed Juan's electrical system, brought him into a local 12-step group and helped him deal with his anger and addiction issues.
Reygadas unveils some startling coups de cinéma and digital creations in a film that is almost abstract, with the qualities of an installation. A glowing red devil makes...
Brilliant and provocative, shallow and preposterous: the two wings of Carlos Reygadas's film-making personality are clearly, even oppressively apparent in his new movie. For my money, it is captivating and exasperating at a ratio of around 60:40. Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) and Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) are a well-to-do Mexican couple with two children who now live in the remote countryside, where Juan has formed a friendship with a local repairman nicknamed El Siete, or Seven (Willebaldo Torres). El Siete once installed Juan's electrical system, brought him into a local 12-step group and helped him deal with his anger and addiction issues.
Reygadas unveils some startling coups de cinéma and digital creations in a film that is almost abstract, with the qualities of an installation. A glowing red devil makes...
- 3/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Making its world debut at Cannes last spring, Carlos Reygadas came away from the festival with the Best Director award in hand for his latest feature, Post Tenebras Lux.
After spending much of last year on the festival circuit, Reygadas’ film is finally set for release in the UK and Us, arriving first on our shores in March and then across the Atlantic in May.
With just over a month before its UK release date, Little White Lies have debuted the new quad poster that we can look forward to seeing up on the Underground and elsewhere across the country in the coming weeks.
“Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) is a wealthy industrialist who has chosen to live with his wife and two children away from the trappings of wealth and the city. Yet isolation in this superficially idyllic rural landscape seems to have brought little peace to his world. Juan...
After spending much of last year on the festival circuit, Reygadas’ film is finally set for release in the UK and Us, arriving first on our shores in March and then across the Atlantic in May.
With just over a month before its UK release date, Little White Lies have debuted the new quad poster that we can look forward to seeing up on the Underground and elsewhere across the country in the coming weeks.
“Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) is a wealthy industrialist who has chosen to live with his wife and two children away from the trappings of wealth and the city. Yet isolation in this superficially idyllic rural landscape seems to have brought little peace to his world. Juan...
- 2/12/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
L.A.-based outfit Strand Releasing has grabbed U.S. rights to Mexican director Carlos Reygadas‘ Post Tenebras Lux, which won the best director prize at Cannes in May.
Latin for ‘light after darkness,’ Post Tenebras Lux was also nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or Award and most recently screened at AFI Fest. The film will open May 1st, 2013 at the Film Forum in New York and dozens of other cities across the country.
Strand’s founder Marcus Hu said:
We’re thrilled to be working on Mr. Reygadas’ film. His sensibilities align with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lucrecia Martel and Jacques Nolot, some of the strongest voices we have in our library.
The film which presents itself as a problematic starring Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo and Willebaldo Torres.
Synopsis:
Juan (Castro) and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And,...
Latin for ‘light after darkness,’ Post Tenebras Lux was also nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or Award and most recently screened at AFI Fest. The film will open May 1st, 2013 at the Film Forum in New York and dozens of other cities across the country.
Strand’s founder Marcus Hu said:
We’re thrilled to be working on Mr. Reygadas’ film. His sensibilities align with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lucrecia Martel and Jacques Nolot, some of the strongest voices we have in our library.
The film which presents itself as a problematic starring Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo and Willebaldo Torres.
Synopsis:
Juan (Castro) and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And,...
- 11/27/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
As I mentioned in the preface to the first part of my Wavelengths preview (the one focusing on the short films), there are significant changes afoot in 2012. Until last year, the festival had a section known as Visions, which was the primary home for formally challenging cinema that nevertheless conformed to the basic tenets of arthouse and/or “festival” cinema (actors, scripting, 70+minute running time, and, once upon a time, 35mm presentation). This year, Wavelengths is both its former self, and it also contains the sort of work that Visions most likely would have housed. While in some respects this can seem to result in a kind of split personality for the section, it also means that Wavelengths, which has often been described as a sort of “festival within the festival,” has moved front and center. Films that would’ve occupied single slots in the older avant-Wavelengths model, like the...
- 9/12/2012
- MUBI
When discussing Carlos Reygadas’ “Post Tenebras Lux,” comparisons to “The Tree of Life” come easily, though Reygadas’s film is as far from a paean to God as it gets. In fact, while Malick’s movie has a sweeping, hands-on perspective on enlightenment and God, Reygadas’ (“Silent Light,” “Battle in Heaven”) has a brazen, ostentatiously alienating and mostly detached view of redemption and Satan.
That’s right, “Post Tenebras Lux” concerns man’s ability to resist temptation and stop himself from sinning. And it’s literally sometimes told from the perspective of Satan, whose subjective point-of-view perspective shots feature two blurry concentric circles (imagine watching a film through Beer Goggles and you’re almost there). These Pov shots are ambiguously peppered throughout the film, and are never explicitly attributed to a single character. But considering that these Pov shots flit about innocent children and adults talking about sin, over-indulgence and violence,...
That’s right, “Post Tenebras Lux” concerns man’s ability to resist temptation and stop himself from sinning. And it’s literally sometimes told from the perspective of Satan, whose subjective point-of-view perspective shots feature two blurry concentric circles (imagine watching a film through Beer Goggles and you’re almost there). These Pov shots are ambiguously peppered throughout the film, and are never explicitly attributed to a single character. But considering that these Pov shots flit about innocent children and adults talking about sin, over-indulgence and violence,...
- 5/23/2012
- by Simon Abrams
- The Playlist
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