Carlos Reygadas : 2012
After Darkness Light
An urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. Nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another. In the twilight a little girl, Rut, plays in a vast field scattered with puddles and mud, while dogs run excitedly around her and cattle and horses move in the background. A spectacular thunderstorm breaks out at nightfall. Dreadful elemental forces are at work. In the dark a devil-figure makes his way into a house while everyone sleeps. The house belongs to Juan and Natalia, a well-off Mexican couple who have brought their two toddlers to live in what seems to be a luxuriant corner of Paradise. But they are not welcome and soon their weaknesses will become destructive wounds. Described by Carlos Reygadas as a work where reason will intervene as little as possible, his fourth feature is a fluid and elusive expression of emotional memory, dream sequences and fantasies exploring the elemental nature of trauma and isolation. The film won the award for Best Director at Festival de Cannes 2012.
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