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Juonikuvaukset(1)
Real-life couple Reygadas and his wife Natalia play Juan and Esther, who live a peaceful yet unusual existence on a Mexican cattle ranch; unusual insofar as they are in an open relationship and Esther is having an affair with an American horse trainer. Juan, for his part, can handle it as long as he hears how things are going, but when Natalia stops giving him information, the dynamic quickly shifts, forcing Juan to examine his fragile masculinity. In between, Reygadas captures the ecstasy of life in thrillingly beautiful natural sequences, delivering another stunning entry in his already-impressive filmography. (New Wave Films)
(lisää)Arvostelut (2)
Awfully long artsy onanism where the first signs of the announced “plot” appear after exactly 50 minutes of shots that could have been cut out. The kind of film that you can with rate five stars on Filmbooster and look like a connoisseur. #KVIFF2019
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This is a broadly conceived, inward-looking, layered (in terms of various formal and narrative means) and unusually varied film dedicated to relationships and their various forms and transformations. It particularly excels in terms of its absolutely brilliant and inventive directing, beautiful cameras and great acting by the central duo, played by Reygadas and his wife, neither of whom are actors. The films is more demanding for audiences, but for Reygadas still a very accessible film full of bull metaphors and stunning passages (concert for timpani, a bull attacking a horse, sex filmed voyeuristically through a door not fully closed). It innovatively delves into the depths of the complex psychology of people and their relationships and is basically an extraordinary work that can be criticized for just a few shortcomings, which include too loose of a storyline in some places and the slightly exaggerated length of certain shots and scenes.
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