Post Tenebras Lux

"With Post Tenebras Lux, his fourth feature, Reygadas splits the difference between his first two efforts and that gorgeously restrained third: Once again, he details a faltering marriage with as much directness as he can muster, but his taste for elusive symbols and non sequiturs returns with a vengeance, and it can be hard to discern how some elements relate to the others.

Here's a film largely set in rural Mexico, for instance, yet there are two scenes that cut away randomly to an English rugby team preparing for scrimmage. The semiotics are hard to explain — and perhaps they carry a personal meaning for Reygadas that he's content not to share with the audience — but the startling majesty of his image-making mostly serves as its own justification." - Scott Tobias via NPR

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Filmspotting #472 - Best of 2013