Carlos Reygadas — Director (8)

Movie

Prisoners (1999)
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other title: Prisioneros
Charles and Bruno were once childhood friends. Years later, when a civil war rages in Belgium, they find themselves behind opposing barricades. Fate will bring them face to face again, this time as guard and captive. When the order is given to execute the prisoner, Charles will have to choose between ideology and scruples. Reygadas has said that upon his first arrival in Europe, he was shocked by the intensity of nationalist feelings that found their horrifying expression in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. By setting his film in a peaceful, Western country, the director wanted to show how the same mechanisms of conflict can come to life in any society, with the same brutality and the same tragic absurdities.

Movie

Where Life is Born (2018)
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★ 6.4 10 ratings
卡洛斯·雷加达斯 actor: 卡洛斯·雷加达斯 / Phil Burgers …
other title: 我们的时光 / Nuestro tiempo …
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.

Movie

Battle in Heaven (2005)
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★ 6.5 12 ratings
other title: 天堂之战 / Batalla en el cielo …
Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.