Showing posts with label Carlos Reygadas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carlos Reygadas. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
France, circa 1967
The 2008 film SILENT LIGHT by Mexican filmmaker CARLOS REYGADAS features a unique cameo appearance by French chanteur JACQUES BREL.
In an intially portentious scene, a father finds his children in the back of a Mexican vagrant's van. What could have been a cheaply suspenseful scene, turns into one of odd merrymaking, as the kids are watching a small television broadcasting the above performance from French television, 1967. The sweaty grotesqueries of the performance bring the children—as well as the audience watching the film—a rare form of delight...
The same day I sought out this footage on YouTube, a friend shared this clip with me, of FRANCOISE HARDY, also from 1967. Rare, indeed, and a fitting counterpart.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Silent Light
The newest film from Mexican maverick CARLOS REYGADAS opens in darkness to reveal a not-so-silent sunrise. TIMES critic MANOLHLA DARGIS reads the film's title as "an allusion to love," but I think the message is closer to spirituality and belief, which is not necessarily the same thing.
In this shot, as per usual, REYGADAS rewards our patience with a carefully wrought sense of beauty and significance.
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