Post Tenebras Lux

Name: Post Tenebras Lux
Genre: Drama
Released: May 1, 2013
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 70

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: May 1, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: An urban family moves to the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart.

Director: Carlos Reygadas

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 115 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

May 1, 2013

I also understood that while this movie is deliberately constructed so that almost nobody will “get it” or like it – and I’m not sure how I feel about that perversity – it’s a masterpiece despite that, or because of that or just anyway. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jun 6, 2013

Post Tenebras Lux is that real rarity in cinema, a visually striking archaeology of the psyche that benefits both the moviegoer primed to engage Reygadas' ideas, and the ones open to being swallowed in an art film wave. Read full review

Film.com David Ehrlich

Apr 29, 2013

Post Tenebras Lux works so well because – even at its most random – it always feels like more of a single portrait of a man in crisis than it does an impish bouquet of provocative incidents. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Apr 12, 2013

The issue with Post Tenebras Lux is that the narrative, not the filmmaker, feels dispiritedly half-baked. Read full review

Time Out London Dave Calhoun

Apr 26, 2013

The film’s said to be autobiographical, but that’s entirely left to us to guess. Read full review

The Playlist Simon Abrams

Apr 12, 2013

Post Tenebras Lux is certainly unique, but Reygadas is often intensely more interested in provoking his audience than actually fleshing out his heady ideas. Read full review

Neil Young

Apr 12, 2013

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. Read full review

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cinemaquote

Jun 26, 2013

reygadas' must mild film, controversially outmoded leos carax's holy motors in cannes 65. yes, autobiographical, yes some treacherousness. yet as THR, this isn't enough to call it great filmmaking. view and review.

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hsantand

Feb 24, 2022

couldn’t be left alone for s/he won’t be able to survive without the care of his parents. Neither Foetus nor animals are able to understand signs. Still signs are universal. Everybody knows that an abysm is a sign for danger. He went silent and left the room. At the next day he apologizedcouldn’t be left alone for s/he won’t be able to survive without the care of his parents. Neither Foetus nor animals are able to understand signs. Still signs are universal. Everybody knows that an abysm is a sign for danger. He went silent and left the room. At the next day he apologized and said to the concurrence -not without sarcasm-, that in the future he had to be more careful to respond to a person with such intellectual grasp.

One of the main problems of auteur filmmakers who owe most of their reputation to the friendships they have cherished around the world in film festivals such as Cannes, is that they assume the role of a genius who only very few can understand. The crowds that make successful a film are a matter of Hollywood. For them photography should serve filmmaking, rather than filmmaking photography. Such geniuses forget that cinema is an independent art that owes as much to theater as to photography.

Truly, photography is a compelling art, but when it uses film to advance its own agenda we are at the verge of failure. That’s why Post-Tenebras-Lux-directe-008.jpgsuch auteur cinema is boring. The Reygadas of Japon is a matter of the past. His recent cinema sacrifices plot for the sake of stillness. Such art is more proper to museums than to movie theaters. The efforts of filmmakers who place photography over storytelling are similar to those of the salesman who once his customer pays him for a car insurance, gives him instead a holiday package.

Photography, as painting, requires a static gaze. Post Tenebras Lux is more suitable to museums, photographer’s websites or monthly magazines specialized on pretty pics. Sure, the beauty of “Post Tenebras Lux” will be well appreciated there.… Expand

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BladeLover2049

Aug 17, 2018

A film that contains the prejudices that auteur cinema has. It not only puts them, but glorifies them. Using themes, techniques, and other legendary directors of history with a disastrous care this film introduces us not to an alienated life, but to a film alienated from so much abstractA film that contains the prejudices that auteur cinema has. It not only puts them, but glorifies them. Using themes, techniques, and other legendary directors of history with a disastrous care this film introduces us not to an alienated life, but to a film alienated from so much abstract revisitation. We find at the end a buffoon ... an eternal relay (taking as reference to "The Eternal Husband" by Dostoyevsky). Too awful.… Expand

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