X
- 2003
- R
- Palisades Tartan
- 2 h 2 m
- 2003
- R
- Palisades Tartan
- 2 h 2 m
Summary Taking its title from the Japanese symbol of the rising sun, Reygadas unapologetically uses widescreen cinema, the most lush of formats, as a backdrop for exploring thorny issues of life and death. (Film Forum)
- 2003
- R
- Palisades Tartan
- 2 h 2 m
- 2003
- R
- Palisades Tartan
- 2 h 2 m
Japan
76
3.8
Summary Taking its title from the Japanese symbol of the rising sun, Reygadas unapologetically uses widescreen cinema, the most lush of formats, as a backdrop for exploring thorny issues of life and death. (Film Forum)
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
76
93% Positive
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7% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
76
93% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Japón, isn’t just the wildest eruption of the current Mexican film boom, it's the most fascinating new picture I've seen this year.
The work of a remarkable new talent. By the movie's towering, final tracking shot, this imaginative, dazzling film achieves distinction.
A notably confident and achieved debut.
It's an engrossing and inventive drama despite its flaws.
Luckily Mr. Reygadas has talent to match his ambitions; or, rather, gifts that undercut them sufficiently to give his film a prickly, haunting poignancy.
Reygadas is both a sophisticate and a primitive: He sets up his film as a religious allegory, with the nameless painter as a kind of suffering Christ and the old woman--whose name is Ascen, as in Ascension--as his redeemer.
Tough going for most audiences and should be considered more of a rough draft full of lofty ideas unevenly executed.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
3.8
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
3.8
25% Positive
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Production Company
No Dream Cinema,
Mantarraya Producciones,
Hubert Bals Fund,
Solaris Film,
Andromeda Films,
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)
Release Date Mar 19, 2003
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating R
Genres
Awards
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
Guadalajara International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Bratislava International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
