Review: Carlos Reygadas' 'Our Time' opens up a marriage and finds more beauty than insight
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jul 01, 2019
3 minutes
In the most resonant sequence in Carlos Reygadas' "Our Time," the camera soars over a mist-shrouded landscape while a woman, Esther (Natalia Lopez), reads aloud from a letter she's written to her husband, Juan (played by Reygadas).
She is processing the conflicted feelings that have emerged in the wake of her affair with another man, one that was sanctioned, or so she thought, by the terms of their open marriage.
As "Dear Juan" letters go, this one ends on an optimistic note ("You are the love of my life, and I've never doubted that for a
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