Japón
Time Out says
Perhaps too self-conscious a stab at a 'great' movie, Reygadas' debut is nevertheless an impressive, engrossing account of a man - a little lame, probably in his sixties, possibly an artist - who travels to a remote valley with thoughts of suicide. Renting a room in an elderly woman's house high above a village, he slowly rediscovers, through a tangle of unexpected emotions, the will to live. Little is explicit in this slow, measured, parable-like film; we're left to deduce motivation from a telling use of music (memorably the final movement from Shostakovich's 15th and Pärt's Cantus), landscape (shot in Super16 'Scope), and the performances of an almost wholly non-pro cast of local peasants. Mesmerising - even after one drunken actor hilariously shatters suspension of disbelief with a whinge about the crew.
Details
Release details
Duration:
134 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Carlos Reygadas
Screenwriter:
Carlos Reygadas
Cast:
Alejandro Ferretis
Magdalena Flores
Yolanda Villa
Martín Serrano
Rolando Hernández
Bernabé Pérez
Carlos Reygadas Barquín
Fernando Benítez
Magdalena Flores
Yolanda Villa
Martín Serrano
Rolando Hernández
Bernabé Pérez
Carlos Reygadas Barquín
Fernando Benítez