Post Tenebras Lux (18)

Director: Carlos Reygadas
Starring: Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres
Mexico/France/Germany/Netherlands, 2012, 2 hours, Subtitles

Winner of Best Director at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

A beautiful, bewildering new film from one of the world’s great directors, this requires each viewer to find their own way through the stories that unfold and to experience it all with the fresh eyes of a child. At the centre of its non-linear plot are Juan and Natalia, a bickering middle-class couple with two adorable toddlers (Reygadas’ own). These tender, touching ‘home movies’ of meal times and parties showing the domestic nature of everyday life are interspersed with odd, more dramatic scenes with various local characters. Like a domestic David Lynch, Reygadas is a true original who links his experimental narrative approach to arresting imagery to create dreamlike films that are both apparently simple and deeply perplexing.

Ffilm newydd brydferth, gynhwysfawr oddi wrth un o gyfarwyddwyr mwyaf blaenllaw’r byd. Mae hon yn gofyn i bob gwyliwr ffeindio’i ffordd ei hun trwy’r straeon sy’n datblygu ac i brofi’r cyfan trwy lygaid diniwed plentyn. Wrth wraidd y stori yw Juan a Natalia, cwbl dosbarth-canol sydd wastad yn ffraeo, sydd â dau blentyn bach hyfryd (sef plant Reygadas). Cyfunir golygfeydd addfwyn, teimladwy o brydau bwyd a phartïon yn portreadu natur deuluol bywyd bob dydd, gyda golgfeydd od, mwy dramatig, yn nodweddu gwahanol gymeriadau lleol. Fel y David Lynch teuluol, mae Reygadas yn artist gwreiddiol sy’n gweu ei naratif arbrofol gyda delweddau trawiadol er mwyn creu ffilmiau breuddwydiol sydd ar yr un pryd yn gwbl syml ac eto’n hynod gymhleth.

Screenings
Aberystwyth Arts Centre	2013-03-19	20:15:00	Buy Tickets
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff	2013-03-17	20:00:00	Buy Tickets