Carlos Reygadas Wins Best Director At Cannes With Post Tenebras Lux

29 May 2012 | 10:19

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40-year-old Mexican director Carlos Reygadas won the Best Director prize at the 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival with Post Tenebras Lux [after darkness, light], a surrealist family drama that was apparently booed during the screening:

"Mr. Reygadas’s taste for the awe and terror of the sublime is in evidence again, as is his confrontational streak — there is candid sex and (off-screen) animal cruelty, as well as a luminescent red devil with visible genitalia. But the biggest provocations in the film are its aesthetic and narrative liberties. Shot with distorting lenses and edited with little regard for chronology or traditional signposts, “Post Tenebras Lux” (the Latin title means “After Darkness, Light”) resembles a documentary at times and a dream at others. It can be hard to tell if certain incongruous sequences — a house party, a rugby match, an orgy at a sauna — are taking place in the past, the future or someone’s imagination. There were belligerent boos and hooting at the press screening on Wednesday evening."

There's demon wang in this movie? SOLD.

This flick seems to be one of those love-it-or-hate-it films. Though a review by Variety said "perplexing" would probably be the "kindest" thing anybody was going to say about this movie. But Carlos doesn't seem to care: "It flatters me that a good portion of the press don't like it. It's not my aim to please the greatest number of people possible."

Check out some more bewildered reactions by festival attendees:

Source: Univision Tumblr, Fox News Latino, NYT

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