Post Tenebras Lux
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings
- Summary: An urban family moves to the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart.
- Director: Carlos Reygadas
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 12 out of 20
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Mixed: 7 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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100I 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.
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90Post 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.
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80What matters more is recognizing Post Tenebras Lux’s kinship with a strain of impressionistic autobiographical cinema practiced by filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky (The Mirror) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) in which every sound and image seems to spring straight from the psyche.
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67The issue with Post Tenebras Lux is that the narrative, not the filmmaker, feels dispiritedly half-baked.
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60The film’s said to be autobiographical, but that’s entirely left to us to guess.
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58Post 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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30Pretty 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.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Jun 26, 20136
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