The title, signifying “light after darkness,” derives from the Latin translation of the Book of Job, an appropriate source given that a considerable amount of the prophet’s proverbial patience is required. Not that the pic doesn’t have its frequent rewards.
Post Tenebras Lux
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Mexico, France, Netherlands · 2012
1h 55m
Director Carlos Reygadas
Starring Adolfo Jimenez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres, Rut Reygadas
Genre Drama
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Juan, his wife, and his children live deep in the countryside of Mexico. As his relationship with his wife strains and he grapples with old memories and violent urges, a devil stalks the land and a horrific crime slowly brews.
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Reygadas' big ideas translate with mixed results.
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
The film’s said to be autobiographical, but that’s entirely left to us to guess.
Carlos Reygadas's latest, an almost impossibly intellectual film, keeps us at a remove that's as striking as that which separates its main character from the lower classes.
The issue with Post Tenebras Lux is that the narrative, not the filmmaker, feels dispiritedly half-baked.
Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan
There's visual poetry here, in small doses, but it doesn't take long for one's patience to run out.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
Pretty pictures alone do not in themselves great cinema make - not for the first time, Reygadas' waywardly wilful approach to screenwriting and structure severely outweighs whatever fleeting pleasures his movies may impart.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
An irritating, baffling, fascinating film.
Post Tenebras Lux is certainly unique, but Reygadas is often intensely more interested in provoking his audience than actually fleshing out his heady ideas.
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