Carlos Reygadas
The brilliant Our Time by Mexican writer/director Carlos Reygadas offers an unflinching portrait of a married couple in romantic freefall: one, a poet, is played by Reygadas himself; the other is played by his wife and long-time editor, Natalia Lopez. It’s another tumultuous and confrontational film to add to a canon that includes experimental mood piece Post Tenebras Lux, transcendent religious drama Silent Light and the explicit political allegory Battle In Heaven.
Reygadas: We think of the artist as someone who isn’t driven by the rational. This is
