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A Cinco de Mayo Celebration of Carlos Reygadas, Mexican Auteur

Gina Telaroli May 5, 2008 | 11:47 am EST

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, I thought I would do a post about one of my favorite and fairly unknown Mexican filmmakers, Carlos Reygadas. Reygadas has directed three feature films - Japon, Battle in Heaven and most recently Silent Light. He’s a visual filmmaker who focuses on landscapes and people instead of plot and action.

I was lucky enough to see Silent Light at the New York Film Festival last year - it hasn’t been distributed yet. It’s a beautiful, Dreyer-esque story of a love triangle in a small Mennonite community:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AufewteAg7g

You can go here to read an interview with Reygadas from a few years ago :

http://www.close-upfilm.com/features/Interviews/carlosreygadas.htm/

And be sure to to rent his two earlier films today. You can watch trailers for the films below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9OcIZMyTP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFvplIiCPw8

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