Post Tenebras Lux
A mesmerizing combination of opaque art-house cinema, personal reflection and class-based rural thriller...casts a strange and powerful spell.
Post Tenebras Lux
POST TENEBRAS LUX ("light after darkness"), ostensibly the story of an upscale, urban family whose move to the Mexican countryside results in domestic crises and class friction, is a stunningly photographed, impressionistic psychological portrait of a family and their place within the sublime, unforgiving natural world. Reygadas conjures a host of unforgettable, ominous images: a haunting sequence at dusk as Reygadas's real-life daughter wanders a muddy field and farm animals loudly circle and thunder and lightning threaten; a glowing-red demon gliding through the rooms of a home; a husband and wife visiting a swingers' bathhouse with rooms named after famous philosophers. By turns entrancing and mystifying, POST TENEBRAS LUX palpably explores the primal conflicts of the human condition.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
120
Language
Spanish,
English,
French
Director
Carlos Reygadas
Cast
Nathalia Acevedo,
Willebaldo Torres,
Rut Reygadas,
Eleazar Reygadas
Awards:
Winner, Best Director, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
A child runs gleefully through a herd of cows at sunset. A glowing red devil skulks through a house at night. A married couple attends a bathhouse orgy where rooms are named after philosophers like Hegel and Duchamp. All of these scenes, and more besides, are shot in a square aspect ratio (1.33:1) ...
Played at
NoHo 7 6.08.13 - 6.09.13
Playhouse 7 6.08.13 - 6.23.13
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