Post Tenebras Lux (2012)

June 9, 2019 9:18 PM

Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
posted by chappell, ambrose (1 comment total)

I loved this film, a few small details aside - Reydagas' rather cavalier attitude towards animal abuse, which he has unconvincingly defended in interviews I've read, is less on display here than in some of his other work but there is at least one scene here that crossed a line for me. That aside, this thing is beautifully dreamlike and non-linear and ambiguous in the best possible ways. It would make a great double-bill with Claire Denis' "L'Intrus" with which it has much in common.

The opening scene is one of the most amazing in the history of cinema, still have shivers thinking about it.
posted by remembrancer at 7:31 AM on June 10, 2019 [2 favorites]