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Post Tenebras Lux

  • 2012
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  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
6.1K
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Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
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Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate on... Read allJuan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.

  • Director
    • Carlos Reygadas
  • Writer
    • Carlos Reygadas
  • Stars
    • Nathalia Acevedo
    • Adolfo Jiménez Castro
    • Rut Reygadas
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    6.1K
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    • Director
      • Carlos Reygadas
    • Writer
      • Carlos Reygadas
    • Stars
      • Nathalia Acevedo
      • Adolfo Jiménez Castro
      • Rut Reygadas
    • 16User reviews
    • 103Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Nathalia Acevedo
    Nathalia Acevedo
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    Adolfo Jiménez Castro
    Adolfo Jiménez Castro
    • Juan…
    Rut Reygadas
    • Rut…
    Eleazar Reygadas
    • Eleazar…
    Willebaldo Torres
    • Seven…
    Mitsy Ferrand
    • Mujer dormida
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    Joakim Chardonnens
    • Hombre dormido…
    Ander Vérez
    • El niño…
    José Alberto Sánchez
    • El Jarro
    Daniel Colorado
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    José Luis Martínez
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    Alejandro Ramírez Molina
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    Félix Robles
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    Adriana Marquina
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    Reyes Rivera
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    Graciano Meijia
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    José Francisco Blake
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    Francisco Ramírez
    • Alcoholics Anonymous
    • Director
      • Carlos Reygadas
    • Writer
      • Carlos Reygadas
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    6cinematic_aficionado

    Creative film making with drawbacks

    After the dark, light.

    This is the nearest translation of this highly tentative piece of cinema whose story involves Mexican urban life, a couple in a whorehouse, a British rugby match with a guest appearance of devil himself.

    At the epicentre a man and his family. On the surface he has it all; a nice house, a beautiful wife and two healthy adorable kids. Beneath that, not all that shines is gold as he struggles with addiction and needs pornography to inspire spousal intimacy.

    Unfortunately and despite the high dose of creative filming the above is the only cohesive bit in this film. The added layers that aspire to connect to the title by juxtaposition of moments of light and darkness drove the film onto a one way street with lights out.

    A very mixed experience
    3lostpopkiller

    A pile of trash.

    It'd be fairly easy to fall prey to the impeccability and preciousness of the imagery here presented. This was projected at Cannes after all.

    The main objective of the filmmaker seems to be to show a very rigid set of moralities, interpretation which he disowns, he blames any interpretation to the spectator. As if the kuleshov effect didn't exist and juxtaposition of images wasn't a well studied science.

    For example, he presents a group of educated white people talking about ideas and auteurs, against a group of non-white uneducated people just getting wasted and exposed; this is a great moment to remember that there wasn't a single professional actor in this film.

    There's for me an overall feeling of misery impregnating all aspects of this production, first the misery of white empty people showing off for an speck of intellectual appreciation, then the misery of people living in poverty and being filmed to make a tall tale about the inherent savageness of the human race and it's direct correlation to the privilege one has. But the most miserable man is not the filmmaker who in its own account would deserve a hat, and even maybe a chair. No, the most miserable person in this transaction is the spectator. Especially the one who was taken on a date with someone who had already watched the film. This spectator that slowly descended into the realisation that his date was an insufferable and pseudointellectual snob who pretended to enjoy such demonstrations of misery in cinema, and actually considered that it has an honest element of artistry. Someone who he thought highly of, just getting crushed under the desperate attempt of Reygadas to make something remotely trascendental, just to be blocked on every social media platform after that. Very inconvenient and uncomfortable situation due to them already living together. Poor, poor soul.

    This is my opinion, the movie is garbage. No one can like this movie genuinely, this is no one's favourite movie. Anyone who says to like this either is Reygadas family or is pretending and will flip at the slightest sign of pressure. I will die on this hill.

    In fact, I challenge anyone who is willing to defend this film to a fight-to-death.

    I'll be in the fountain at London Square every Friday at 3pm.

    Edit: As to april 2022 no one has shown. This is only further proving my point. This is no one's favourite movie, no one would even take a punch for this movie, hell, they wouldn't even take a chance.
    8vandreren

    A ray of light in a cinematic dark age

    All the reviewers that superficially reacted to this film as just another self-indulgent art house ego trip made me laugh. I despise and ridicule art house pretension as much as anyone. But that's not what this film is. I'm not going to bother adding my insights and interpretations to the heap, you can do that on your own. And that's the point, if you can have a mind to make your own connections and formulate your own ideas, you should have no problems with PTL. Rich photography with shots that linger long enough to actually absorb them. A refreshing lack of the usual gimmicks: moving close-ups, romantic schmaltz and tearful, blubbering melodrama. The story is self-contained and original; the characters genuine and authentic; the style minimalist yet mesmerizing. Attributes sorely lacking in Hollywood and contemporary cinema in general. And Natalia's rendition of 'it's a dream' near the end was moving and impactful. Unlike anything that whining, glass shattering ol' hack Neil Young ever did. Not going to say it's perfect, but we need more like this.
    4FilmCriticLalitRao

    Post Tenebras Lux or the amazing art of making a pretentious film by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.

    Mexican film 'Post Tenebras Lux' begins with an amazingly surreal opening sequence.It is a very crucial part of the film as it reveals the ways in which this film's young actors have been directed. Director Carlos Reygadas has not been able to capitalize a lot on the brilliant opening shots as much of the subsequent film is muddled and reeks of pretentiousness.Elements like literature and sex have been introduced by the filmmaker to convey hidden messages. In one instance there are people trying to outsmart each other by sharing their shallow knowledge of Russian literature by quoting some of its greatest authors namely Chekov,Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Reygadas also uses sex in order to delve deeper into pretentiousness as names of great philosophers such as Kant and Foucault are taken in order to portray a freaky encounter with strangers in a bathhouse.This film's biggest weakness is its complete absence of a clearly defined storyline which could accompany audiences in a meaningful cinematographic journey.Touted as a family film,'Post Tenebras Lux' gives the impression of merely being a convoluted personal vision of how a rich person behaves in a place surrounded by poor people with problems.The hapless audiences are puzzled as they have the right to know how the film is going to end. Hop la as it comes like a maddening shock.Watch and regret at your own perils.
    10briandoering86

    Haunting Expressionist Art

    An urban family, having moved to the countryside of Mexico, experiences raw drama and ambiguous fantasy in this cinematically fresh and rewarding film by Reygadas. The cinematography is ethereal and at times haunting when combined with such unsettling imagery. That's not to say the films imagery is horrifying in itself. The imagery of Post Tenebras Lux is unsettling in that it's picturesque and lush while also being new and confounding. This is partially due to it's hypnotic, almost tunnel vision take on the 4:3 ratio. This way of presenting the story only adds to it's mysterious nature. The narrative in itself is overtly expressionist as it's partial auto-biographical and moves with fluidity removed from reasoning. It's a film that's entrancing and bewildering at the same time - an atmosphere that just seems to work. It certainly worked to make one of the most original films of the year.

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    • Trivia
      The two children in the movie are the real-life children of director Carlos Reygadas. The family scenes were shot at his own house.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2012 (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      It's a Dream
      Composed by Neil Young

      Silver Fiddle Music / Galaxia Musical, S.A. de C.V.

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    • Release date
      • May 8, 2013 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Mexico
      • France
      • Netherlands
      • Germany
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • Spanish
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Light After Darkness
    • Filming locations
      • Santo Domingo Ocotitlán, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico(village)
    • Production companies
      • No Dream Cinema
      • Mantarraya Producciones
      • Le Pacte
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $39,185
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,674
      • May 5, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $124,279
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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