Tag Archives: Carlos Reygadas

Harmony Talks Trash

Harmony Korine is gleefully recycling the diabolical tagline to the assembled press at London’s Mayfair Hotel: “It’s about people who fuck trash. Not just about people who fuck trash, but that is one of the things that they love to do.” It’s hard to know whether the overgrown wünderkind has hit the festival circuit to [...]

Silent Light

The beauty of the opening shot of Silent Light, the latest film from Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven, Japón), is matched only by its closing shot.  These two shots neatly enclose Silent Light’s universe, which focuses on a family in a Mennonite community in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.  The first film [...]