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POST TENEBRAS LUX
Carlos Reygadas | Mexico, France, Germany, Netherlands | 2012 | 120min | color | Original version Spanish, English subtitles
FNC
Box office18 oct. 15:00Session 201
Cineplex Odéon Quartier Latin salle A
350 Rue Émery Métro Berri-UQAM
Synopsis :
AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2012
Honoured with the Best Director Award at this year’s Cannes Festival, Post Tenebras Lux will be shown for one of the first times in its new version, ten minutes shorter than the original. Carlos Reygadas creates cinema based on visions, apparitions whose capacity to fascinate is particularly strong in this work. Filmed with his own child- ren and partner, Post Tenebras Lux retells age-old fables of jealousy and desire. A model family—a couple and their two young children—live in a veritable natural paradise, but the terrible unease that eats at them is quick to emerge. The memorable opening scene—a solitary young girl surrounded by animals in a thunderstorm—immedia- tely transports the film into a dimension where the mythic, fantastical and naive intertwine. But with Reygadas the minutiae of everyday life are never far away, and the canvas darkens inexorably. How can one be happy in a world where violence can erupt at any time, from within or without? Post Tenebras Lux aspires to the light after darkness, but also embodies a deep questioning of what it is that pushes us toward the void. The Devil, probably.
Honoured with the Best Director Award at this year’s Cannes Festival, Post Tenebras Lux will be shown for one of the first times in its new version, ten minutes shorter than the original. Carlos Reygadas creates cinema based on visions, apparitions whose capacity to fascinate is particularly strong in this work. Filmed with his own child- ren and partner, Post Tenebras Lux retells age-old fables of jealousy and desire. A model family—a couple and their two young children—live in a veritable natural paradise, but the terrible unease that eats at them is quick to emerge. The memorable opening scene—a solitary young girl surrounded by animals in a thunderstorm—immedia- tely transports the film into a dimension where the mythic, fantastical and naive intertwine. But with Reygadas the minutiae of everyday life are never far away, and the canvas darkens inexorably. How can one be happy in a world where violence can erupt at any time, from within or without? Post Tenebras Lux aspires to the light after darkness, but also embodies a deep questioning of what it is that pushes us toward the void. The Devil, probably.
