Gods of Mexico

Name: Gods of Mexico
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 3, 2023
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 70

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Oscilloscope | Release Date: March 3, 2023 | Not Rated

Summary: With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, Gods of Mexico is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, andWith visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, Gods of Mexico is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines—paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization.… Expand

Director: Helmut Dosantos

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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William Repass

Feb 27, 2023

If Gods of Mexico harkens back to certain traditions of visual representation, Helmut Donsantos’s counterintuitive recombination of what would seem to be mutually exclusive inspirations, each with its own temporal framework, allows him to offer for our contemplation a vision uniquely his own. Read full review

The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Mar 9, 2023

Gods Of Mexico is a film less interested in breaking down its conceptual framework — or even pushing forward a fully realized thesis — than it is about creating a structured cinematic experience. Read full review

The Film Stage Jose Solís

Mar 9, 2023

In Gods of Mexico, we are seeing the Aztec gods still hard at work, not correcting the imperfections of creation, but sitting with us and basking in its glory. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 27, 2023

I prefer my documentaries to be more informative than Gods of Mexico. But that prehistoric cinema connection renders this mesmerizing film as magical as it is historical. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Mar 3, 2023

This nominal portrait of people isn’t interested in what they have to say. Read full review

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