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Carlos Reygadas is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Co-Producer and Editor Mexicain born on 10 october 1971 at Mexico City (Mexique)
Carlos Reygadas (born 1971, in Mexico City) is a Mexican filmmaker known for the four films Japón (2002; "Japan"), Batalla en el Cielo (2005; "Battle in Heaven"), Luz Silenciosa (2007; "Silent Light"), and Post Tenebras Lux (2012; "Light After Darkness"). Owing to Batalla, he has become somewhat notorious for the raw depiction of sex and the physically unflattering use of actors.
Reygadas' films explore spirituality and the sublime through the interior lives of men suffering existential crises. He has shot all but one of his films in CinemaScope. With Silent Light, Reygadas competed once more for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and has become one of the most prominent writer–directors of modern Mexican cinema.
Martin Scorsese called Silent Light "A surprising picture, and a very moving one as well."
Reygadas received the award for Best Director at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his film Post Tenebras Lux.
In 1997, Reygadas participated in a film competition in Belgium with his first short film, Maxhumain. Shortly after that, in 1999, he began writing his first long film, Japón, which he did not begin to shoot until 2001. The film was presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival and received a special mention for the Caméra d'Or award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Coral Award of the Havana Film Festival.
In 2004, Carlos Reygadas produced with his long time partner Jaime Romandía the film Sangre, which was directed by the young filmmaker Amat Escalante. It was presented at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and won in the Un Certain Regard section. It was also presented in other festivals, such as the Toulouse Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival.
In 2005 Reygadas filmed Batalla en el Cielo (Battle in Heaven) assisted by Amat Escalante. The film gained worldwide notoriety for its graphic sex. It competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2007 Reygadas filmed Silent Light, which went on to win the Jury Prize at Cannes and is very highly regarded by American filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who considers it a masterpiece of modern cinema.
In 2009 Carlos Reygadas co-produced and co-edited, with the Spanish director and producer Jaime Romandía (Mantarraya Producciones), the film "El árbol" (The Tree, a Spanish-Mexican co-production), directed by Carlos Serrano Azcona starring as the main character, Bosco Sodi contemporary artist. It was presented at the 2009 Rotterdam Film Festival.
In early 2010, Reygadas announced plans for his next feature film at the Berlin Film Festival, titled Post Tenebras Lux. It is a semi-autobiographical fiction film and is about "feelings, memories, dreams, things I've hoped for, fears, facts of my current life." Reygadas also said of the film in Berlin, reason will intervene as little as possible, like an expressionist painting where you try to express what you're feeling through the painting rather than depict what something looks like." It was shot in Mexico, Britain, Spain, and Belgium, all places where Reygadas has lived. At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Reygadas won the Best Director Award for the film.
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Carlos Reygadas
Carlos Reygadas (born 1971, in Mexico City) is a Mexican filmmaker known for the four films Japón (2002; "Japan"), Batalla en el Cielo (2005; "Battle in Heaven"), Luz Silenciosa (2007; "Silent Light"), and Post Tenebras Lux (2012; "Light After Darkness"). Owing to Batalla, he has become somewhat notorious for the raw depiction of sex and the physically unflattering use of actors.
Reygadas' films explore spirituality and the sublime through the interior lives of men suffering existential crises. He has shot all but one of his films in CinemaScope. With Silent Light, Reygadas competed once more for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and has become one of the most prominent writer–directors of modern Mexican cinema.
Martin Scorsese called Silent Light "A surprising picture, and a very moving one as well."
Reygadas received the award for Best Director at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his film Post Tenebras Lux.
Biography
In 1987 Reygadas discovered his filmic passion after watching the films of the Soviet/Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986). He attended Mount St Mary's College, Derbyshire, and later studied law in Mexico. Afterward, he specialized in armed conflicts in London and worked for the United Nations.In 1997, Reygadas participated in a film competition in Belgium with his first short film, Maxhumain. Shortly after that, in 1999, he began writing his first long film, Japón, which he did not begin to shoot until 2001. The film was presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival and received a special mention for the Caméra d'Or award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Coral Award of the Havana Film Festival.
In 2004, Carlos Reygadas produced with his long time partner Jaime Romandía the film Sangre, which was directed by the young filmmaker Amat Escalante. It was presented at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and won in the Un Certain Regard section. It was also presented in other festivals, such as the Toulouse Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival.
In 2005 Reygadas filmed Batalla en el Cielo (Battle in Heaven) assisted by Amat Escalante. The film gained worldwide notoriety for its graphic sex. It competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2007 Reygadas filmed Silent Light, which went on to win the Jury Prize at Cannes and is very highly regarded by American filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who considers it a masterpiece of modern cinema.
In 2009 Carlos Reygadas co-produced and co-edited, with the Spanish director and producer Jaime Romandía (Mantarraya Producciones), the film "El árbol" (The Tree, a Spanish-Mexican co-production), directed by Carlos Serrano Azcona starring as the main character, Bosco Sodi contemporary artist. It was presented at the 2009 Rotterdam Film Festival.
In early 2010, Reygadas announced plans for his next feature film at the Berlin Film Festival, titled Post Tenebras Lux. It is a semi-autobiographical fiction film and is about "feelings, memories, dreams, things I've hoped for, fears, facts of my current life." Reygadas also said of the film in Berlin, reason will intervene as little as possible, like an expressionist painting where you try to express what you're feeling through the painting rather than depict what something looks like." It was shot in Mexico, Britain, Spain, and Belgium, all places where Reygadas has lived. At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Reygadas won the Best Director Award for the film.
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Our Time (2018)
, 2h53Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Carlos Reygadas
Roles Juan
Rating67%
La campagne mexicaine. Une famille élève des taureaux de combat. Esther est en charge de la gestion du ranch, tandis que son mari Juan, poète de renommée mondiale, s’occupe des bêtes. Lorsqu’Esther s’éprend du dresseur de chevaux, Juan se révèle alors incapable de rester fidèle à ses convictions.
Director
Our Time (2018)
, 2h53Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Carlos Reygadas
Rating67%
La campagne mexicaine. Une famille élève des taureaux de combat. Esther est en charge de la gestion du ranch, tandis que son mari Juan, poète de renommée mondiale, s’occupe des bêtes. Lorsqu’Esther s’éprend du dresseur de chevaux, Juan se révèle alors incapable de rester fidèle à ses convictions.
Light After Darkness (2012)
, 2hDirected by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Nathalia Acevedo
Rating64%
The film deals with a peculiar narrative, the life of John (Adolfo Jimenez Castro). A wealthy householder who, with his wife Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) and their two young sons Eleazar (Eleazar Reygadas) and Ruth (Ruth Reygadas), decide to change the life of the city for the plain and simple country life. Starting again with an ostentatious house (a comparison of the few neighbors who live there) begin to enjoy the momentary taste of rural life seems to evoke. Thus, the gradient taste that prevailed at the beginning, begins to crumble for marriage. The children, on the other hand, nothing cumbersome and enjoy perfect life offered by this bleak place. The character of John begins to have contact with the people who live in the same direction. Seven (Willebaldo Torres), a man who usually do everything in their power to survive leads him to meet Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are taken into a ramshackle cabin in the woods. The film takes us into the hands of the most intimate problems that each of the people shrinks, not to feed a superficial argument, but each character is interfered in the problems affecting the daily life of a rural culture. Where the world is cruel and life is harder.
Silent Light (2007)
, 2h22Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Rating71%
Silent Light begins with a long tracking shot of the sun rising over a beautiful plain. The protagonist Johan, his wife Esther, and their children sit silently saying grace, after which each member of Johan's family departs from their home except for him. Once he is alone, he stops the clock on the wall and breaks down crying. Johan goes to work and discusses with a colleague that he is having an affair with a single woman by the name of Marianne; he makes it clear that his wife knows about the affair. Johan leaves work to meet Marianne in a field, and they begin to kiss. In the next scene, Johan's children are bathing and playing along a riverbank while he and his wife watch. They call one of their children over to bathe her, and as they are doing so, Esther begins to cry.
Battle in Heaven (2005)
, 1h38Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Rating55%
Marcos (Marcos Hernández) is a working class man in Mexico, employed by "the general." Marcos learns that the baby that he and his wife kidnapped for ransom had accidentally died. The remainder of the film follows a despondent Marcos, seemingly haunted by the moral and/or legal implications of his actions.
Japón (2003)
, 2h10Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Rating68%
The film follows a man going through an acute existential crisis. He leaves Mexico City to go out to the country and prepare for his death, staying with an old Indian widow in her ramshackle home overlooking a desolate canyon. In the vastness of a wild and impressive nature, he confronts the infinite humanity of the widow and oscillates between cruelty and lyricism. His senses become dull, arousing his desires and instincts for sexuality and life.
Scriptwriter
Our Time (2018)
, 2h53Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Carlos Reygadas
Roles Writer
Rating67%
La campagne mexicaine. Une famille élève des taureaux de combat. Esther est en charge de la gestion du ranch, tandis que son mari Juan, poète de renommée mondiale, s’occupe des bêtes. Lorsqu’Esther s’éprend du dresseur de chevaux, Juan se révèle alors incapable de rester fidèle à ses convictions.
Light After Darkness (2012)
, 2hDirected by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Nathalia Acevedo
Rating64%
The film deals with a peculiar narrative, the life of John (Adolfo Jimenez Castro). A wealthy householder who, with his wife Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) and their two young sons Eleazar (Eleazar Reygadas) and Ruth (Ruth Reygadas), decide to change the life of the city for the plain and simple country life. Starting again with an ostentatious house (a comparison of the few neighbors who live there) begin to enjoy the momentary taste of rural life seems to evoke. Thus, the gradient taste that prevailed at the beginning, begins to crumble for marriage. The children, on the other hand, nothing cumbersome and enjoy perfect life offered by this bleak place. The character of John begins to have contact with the people who live in the same direction. Seven (Willebaldo Torres), a man who usually do everything in their power to survive leads him to meet Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are taken into a ramshackle cabin in the woods. The film takes us into the hands of the most intimate problems that each of the people shrinks, not to feed a superficial argument, but each character is interfered in the problems affecting the daily life of a rural culture. Where the world is cruel and life is harder.
Silent Light (2007)
, 2h22Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Rating71%
Silent Light begins with a long tracking shot of the sun rising over a beautiful plain. The protagonist Johan, his wife Esther, and their children sit silently saying grace, after which each member of Johan's family departs from their home except for him. Once he is alone, he stops the clock on the wall and breaks down crying. Johan goes to work and discusses with a colleague that he is having an affair with a single woman by the name of Marianne; he makes it clear that his wife knows about the affair. Johan leaves work to meet Marianne in a field, and they begin to kiss. In the next scene, Johan's children are bathing and playing along a riverbank while he and his wife watch. They call one of their children over to bathe her, and as they are doing so, Esther begins to cry.
Battle in Heaven (2005)
, 1h38Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Roles Writer
Rating55%
Marcos (Marcos Hernández) is a working class man in Mexico, employed by "the general." Marcos learns that the baby that he and his wife kidnapped for ransom had accidentally died. The remainder of the film follows a despondent Marcos, seemingly haunted by the moral and/or legal implications of his actions.
Japón (2003)
, 2h10Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Roles Writer
Rating68%
The film follows a man going through an acute existential crisis. He leaves Mexico City to go out to the country and prepare for his death, staying with an old Indian widow in her ramshackle home overlooking a desolate canyon. In the vastness of a wild and impressive nature, he confronts the infinite humanity of the widow and oscillates between cruelty and lyricism. His senses become dull, arousing his desires and instincts for sexuality and life.
Producer
Our Time (2018)
, 2h53Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Carlos Reygadas
Roles Producer
Rating67%
La campagne mexicaine. Une famille élève des taureaux de combat. Esther est en charge de la gestion du ranch, tandis que son mari Juan, poète de renommée mondiale, s’occupe des bêtes. Lorsqu’Esther s’éprend du dresseur de chevaux, Juan se révèle alors incapable de rester fidèle à ses convictions.
We Are the Flesh (2016)
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Claudette Maillé
Roles Co-Producer
Rating47%
Lucio et sa soeur Fauna déambulent dans un Mexique en ruine à la recherche de provisions. Dans un bâtiment abandonné et dévasté, ils rencontrent un homme qui va les entraîner dans un torrent de perversités, de violence et de folie.
Light After Darkness (2012)
, 2hDirected by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Actors Nathalia Acevedo
Roles Producer
Rating64%
The film deals with a peculiar narrative, the life of John (Adolfo Jimenez Castro). A wealthy householder who, with his wife Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) and their two young sons Eleazar (Eleazar Reygadas) and Ruth (Ruth Reygadas), decide to change the life of the city for the plain and simple country life. Starting again with an ostentatious house (a comparison of the few neighbors who live there) begin to enjoy the momentary taste of rural life seems to evoke. Thus, the gradient taste that prevailed at the beginning, begins to crumble for marriage. The children, on the other hand, nothing cumbersome and enjoy perfect life offered by this bleak place. The character of John begins to have contact with the people who live in the same direction. Seven (Willebaldo Torres), a man who usually do everything in their power to survive leads him to meet Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are taken into a ramshackle cabin in the woods. The film takes us into the hands of the most intimate problems that each of the people shrinks, not to feed a superficial argument, but each character is interfered in the problems affecting the daily life of a rural culture. Where the world is cruel and life is harder.
Los bastardos (2008)
, 1h30Directed by Amat Escalante
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Roles Associate Producer
Rating61%
A Los Angeles, comme chaque matin, Fausto et Jesus, deux travailleurs mexicains clandestins, attendent au coin d'un terminal de bus dans l'espoir d'être embauchés. Les tâches sont ingrates et très mal payées, mais la nécessité de gagner un peu d'argent leur met une pression intense. Aujourd'hui, ils ont trouvé un travail beaucoup mieux payé. Aujourd'hui, leur outil de travail est un fusil à canon scié.