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Juan and his urban family move to the countryside.

Post Tenebras Lux

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Post Tenebras Lux conjures striking imagery amidst its formless exploration into darkness and light, but director Carlos Reygadas paints his abstract work with the slowest of brushstrokes.

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J. Hoberman

ARTINFO.com

If only the movie were as terrific as its 10-minute pre-title sequence.

Feb 22, 2019

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

It's either a sublime work of genius or a drearily pretentious nightmare. Possibly both.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 1, 2017

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Dan Sullivan

Film Comment Magazine

Post Tenebras Lux is a film rich with sheer material presence, making good on Reygadas's apparent intention to make the viewer truly feel the audible and the visible, but his pictorial gimmickry can only do so much aesthetic heavy-lifting.

Nov 5, 2013

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

It's not enjoyable, it's not challenging. It's only frustrating.

Rated: C-

Sep 18, 2021

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Jordan M. Smith

IONCINEMA.com

Post Tenebras Lux weaves an austere narrative around the crumbling of family life in rural Mexico while dropping in autobiographical clues of Reygadas' own upbringing in often breathtakingly beautiful moments of serene cinema.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 12, 2020

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C.J. Prince

Way Too Indie

I still can't deny that parts of the film resonated with me, and down the road I might come to appreciate it more, but right now I feel mostly indifferent to what I saw.

Rated: 6/10

Jul 2, 2019

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Audience Member Mesmerizing on its visuals and a refreshing story-telling make of this slow-borning film something worth to watch. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I have never watched a Carlos Reygadas film before... well now I know I won't be seeing other of his films again. Pretentious to the level that would make Jodorowsky puke. A banana glue to a museum is less pretentious than this.I have seen better acting in porn movies. (Maybe this last point is difficult to detect to non Native Spanish speakers, but it is the worst) There is no doubt that the only people that watch his movies are the ones that because of work they have to see it. He is no Tarkovsky that's for sure Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review raphael g I thought it was incredibly beautiful. It caused a nice discussion amongst friends afterwards. It must be seen at a cinema; the images and the sound are amazing. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member this is a fucking master piece since everything is a fantasy in dreams of Reygadas and only one that can be real is INTERNET as body of devil and unreasonable facts for what human beings fight and maybe kill them each others. terrenal things. EXCELLENT MOVIE WITH DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE OF CINEMA. NO FOR EVERYONE. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm not sure that this movie was made to be understood. I also don't know if there was a script and that is alright because I also don't know what did I just watched. If I had to give an answer I would say that this was a collage of dreams. I do know that I loved the work of the cinematographer and his impressionist image style. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member if anyone has any idea of the STORY behind this movie, please share. I have absolutely no clue. Great cinematography but where is the story? Painfully slow to watch and I couldn't wait for it to end. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Carlos Reygadas Director Adolfo Jiménez Castro Juan Nathalia Acevedo Natalia Willebaldo Torres El Siete Eleazar Reygadas Eleazar Rut Reygadas Rut

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Synopsis Juan and his urban family move to the countryside.

Director: Carlos Reygadas
Producer: Jaime Romandia, Carlos Reygadas
Screenwriter: Carlos Reygadas
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: IMCINE, Le Pacte, The Match Factory, Mantarraya Producciones, Topkapi Films, No Dream Cinema, Arte France Cinema, Foprocine
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): May 1, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 21, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $38.9K
Runtime: 2h 0m