I saw Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux new film on Friday night. With this one and Holy Motors I seem to have had the knack of picking unusual films to go see in the theater. There is nothing straightforward about this movie. But unlike Holy Motors, I was largely entranced by this very strange, hypnotic film. I will write more later as I continue to mull it over. At the moment I’m interpreting it as a film, in part, about the anxieties of being a father and a husband. I’m also wondering if the whole film could be interpreted as what the main character Juan saw, in his mind — bits of memory, real and imagined — before dying.
More later.