Despite its Latin title – which translates as “After Darkness, Light” – illumination proves maddeningly elusive in Post Tenebras Lux, the eagerly-awaited fourth feature by Mexico’s ...

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), ...

When “Post Tenebras Lux” premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, it was mostly met with boos and pans, yet days later Carlos Reygadas won the festival’s best director prize.

But “Post Tenebras Lux” is that real rarity in cinema, a visually striking archaeology of the psyche that benefits both the moviegoer primed to engage Reygadas’ ideas, and the ones open to ...

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 ...

Carlos Reygadas' beguiling Post Tenebras Lux features a faltering marriage, a glowing red CGI devil and several impenetrable non sequiturs. It's simultaneously beautiful and discordant ...

Post Tenebras Lux. 3 out of 5 stars. Film; Recommended. Tuesday 19 March 2013. Share. Copy Link. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp. Written by Dave Calhoun. Advertising. Time Out says.

Carlos Reygadas’ fourth film, Post Tenebras Lux begins with what, in retrospect, appear to be two dreams. They both become nightmares. In the first: Rut, a toddler (played by the director’s ...

Much of “Post Tenebras Lux” aspires for the advanced cinematic experience that “Silent Light” eloquently achieved, but Reygadas fails to make this one gel outside of individual fragments.

Unrated. 115 minutes. At the SieFilmCenter. Mesmerizing, mysterious, willfully perverse, the Mexican movie “Post Tenebras Lux” opens with two scenes, one realistic, the other fantastical. In ...