Thursday, June 15, 2017

Silent Light




Carlos Reygadas' film Silent Light made the New York Times list of "The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far." The list has prompted many fun and aggravating debates. But Silent Light deserves the recognition, and I'm thrilled it made the list. The opening sequence is one of the greatest in cinema.  In my book, it is preceded only by the opening of Orson Welles' Othello.

I wore an article about Reygadas' film for the Texas arts journal Glasstire. Here is an excerpt:


"Carlos Reygadas is a high-minded wild thing out of Mexico City. He’s made four feature films, and all have screened at Cannes, where they were simultaneously harangued and cheered by critics. He employs a vintage camera and lenses and a small crew. The pictures are marvelous and totally out of sync with Hollywood norms. Reygadas is like a Romantic poet of the cinema; his films suggest that a love of humankind comes through Nature. They describe a cosmogenic imagination, in that each film is like an origin story and a meditation on the infinite. The images are, by turns: beautiful, hallucinogenic, brutal, erotic, and subversively funny."


You can find the full article here: Glasstire







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