Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, 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. Carlos 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.
POST TENEBRAS LUX
A film by Carlos Reygadas
(Mexico/France/Germany/Holland, 2012, 115 min. In In Spanish, English and French with English subtitles)
Now streaming on YouTube, Google Play, Vudu, and Amazon Prime
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