Japón
This Is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts
July 19 - 31, 2019
Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light) first emerged on the international film landscape with this visually intoxicating tale of a suicidal man from Mexico City who finds renewed love and desire when he meets an elderly village woman; Japón reaches for the sublime as it ponders sex, suffering, and spirituality.
Cinema of the 21st century found its heir to Andrei Tarkovsky with the emergence of Mexican master Carlos Reygadas who, perhaps more than any other major auteur of his generation, has devoted himself to wrestling with weighty metaphysical questions of sex, spirituality, mortality, and suffering. His quietly iconoclastic vision emerged fully formed with the cryptically titled Japón, in which a tormented man travels to a remote valley with a plan to commit suicide, only to find his will to live restored through his relationship with an older widow. Straying readily from its narrative path to chase down moments of visual and auditory transcendence, this sublime psychic journey is rich with aesthetic and philosophical revelations.
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