Maverick helmer Carlos Reygadas compares "Post tenebras lux" to an expressionist painting, though Dadaist is more accurate. The title, signifying “light after darkness,” derives from the Latin ...

To be in the thrall of Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas’ beautiful, hypnotic images is to be alive to the decorous, the monstrous and the ridiculous, but also to feel deeply how they might ...

A mesmerizing combination of opaque art-house cinema, personal reflection and class-based rural thriller, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas’ “Post Tenebras Lux” casts a strange and powerful spell.

With Post Tenebras Lux, his fourth feature, Reygadas splits the difference between his first two efforts and that gorgeously restrained third: Once again, he details a faltering marriage with as much ...

“Post Tenebras Lux” opens in a dreamy Arcadia, a pasture where horses, dogs and cows graze or run around a joyful little girl taking halting steps. It’s only when dusk is slowly turning to darkness ...

Mexican director Carlos Reygadas’ latest film comes with impressive art-house bona fides. It was booed last year at Cannes (a rite of passage for auteurs), then he won the festival’s best director ...

Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) and Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo, pictured right) are an affluent, formerly urbanite couple living in rural Mexico with their two angelic children Rut (Rut Reygadas) and ...

When there’s no critical consensus on a movie, the film gets sent to Criticwire’s Division Division where we measure the arguments on both sides. “Post Tenebras Lux” was booed when it premiered at ...