Post Tenebras Lux (film)

Post Tenebras Lux
Directed byCarlos Reygadas
Written byCarlos Reygadas
Produced byJaime Romandia
Carlos Reygadas
StarringAdolfo Jiménez Castro
Nathalia Acevedo
CinematographyAlexis Zabé
Edited byNatalia López
Production
companies
NoDreamsCinema
Mantarraya Producciones
Le Pacte
Topkapi Films
Distributed byNDMantarraya
Release date
  • 24 May 2012 (2012-05-24) (Cannes)
Running time
120 minutes
CountriesMexico
France
Netherlands
LanguagesSpanish
French
English

Post Tenebras Lux is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Carlos Reygadas. The title is Latin for "Light after darkness". The film is semiautobiographical, and the narrative follows a rural couple in Mexico, with additional scenes from England, Spain and Belgium; all places where Reygadas has lived. The film competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival[1][2] and Reygadas won the Best Director Award.[3]

Contemporary reviews for Post Tenebras Lux were far more divided than those for Reygadas' previous works. Some considered the film to be incoherent or frustrating in structure.[4]

  1. ^ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  2. ^ "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
  3. ^ "Awards 2012". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  4. ^ O'Hehir, Andrew (May 1, 2013). ""Post Tenebras Lux": A perverse, dreamlike masterpiece". Salon. Retrieved December 1, 2015.