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Our Time (DVD/Download/Blu-ray)
A film by Carlos Reygadas
Synopsis
In between, Reygadas captures the ecstasy of life in thrillingly beautiful natural sequences, delivering another stunning entry in his already-impressive filmography.
Length 173 min.
original languages Spanish, English
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Director — Carlos Reygadas
Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican film director, writer and producer.
He studied law in Mexico City and later specialized in the law of armed conflict and the use of force in London. After quitting the Mexican Foreign Service he made four short films in Belgium before filming Japón, which was presented at the Rotterdam and the Cannes film festivals in 2002, where it received a special mention for the Camera d’Or. The film was coproduced by himself and his long time producing partner, Jaime Romandía.
In 2004 they produced Amat Esclante’s first film, Sangre, and have since coproduced the rest of his films. in 2005 Reygadas premiered at the Cannes Film Festival his second film, Battle in Heaven, in competition.
Also at Cannes he was awarded the Jury Prize in 2007 for Silent Light and the Best Director award for Post Tenebras Lux in 2012.
Our Time premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2018.
Filmography
Features:
2018: OUR TIME (Nuestro Tiempo)
2012: POST TENEBRAS LUX
2007: SILENT LIGHT (Luz Silenciosa)
2005: BATTLE IN HEAVEN (Batalla en el Cielo)
2002: JAPÓN
Cast & Credits
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CAST |
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Esther |
Natalia López |
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Juan |
Carlos Reygadas |
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Phil |
Phil Burgers |
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Lorena |
Lorena |
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Juan (son) |
Yago Martínez |
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Children |
Eleazar Reygadas, Rut Reygadas |
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CREW |
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Director |
Carlos Reygadas |
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Producer |
Jamie Romandía, Carlos Reygadas |
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Co-Producers |
Michael Weber, Katrin Pors, Moisés Cosío |
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Associate Producers |
Jamal Zeinal Zade, Dan Wechsler, Jim Stark, |
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Meinolf Zurhorst, Julio Chavezmontes, |
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Martha Sosa, Fiorella Moretti |
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Script & Editing |
Carlos Reygadas |
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Cinematography |
Diego García |
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Additional Cinematography |
Adrián Durazo |
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Sound |
Raúl Locatelli, Carlos Cortés, Jaime Baksht |
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Art Director |
Emmanuel Picault |
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Post-Production |
Ernie Schaeffer |
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VFX |
Diego Vázquez |
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Film made with support from |
L.I.S.R 189 (Eficine) |
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Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Imcine) |
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Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad |
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Presented by |
Nodream and Mantarraya |
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In co-production with |
The Match Factory, Snowglobe, Mer Film, Eficine, |
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Foprocine, Zdf / Arte, Luxbox, Detalle Films, |
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Film i Väst, Bord Cadre Films |
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In association with |
Sørfond, Martha Sosa, Julio Chavezmontes, |
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L’aide aux Cinémas du Monde- Centre national |
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du cinéma et de l’Image Animée- Institut Français |
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Mexico/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden 2018 |
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173 mins 1:2.5 Dolby 7.1 |
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The Critics
"This three-hour film is so rich, so strange, so darkly glittering that we’re bewildered where to begin.
There is something Joycean — and accolades come no higher — about this ambitious, exploring, ellipsis-rich film."
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
★★★★
"An unnerving, bold and subtly complex dissection of male ego and aggression."
David Jenkins, Little White Lies
'A love letter read over an epic shot of a plane’s descent is unaccountably moving.'
“Our Time” is the rare spiritual drama that not only feels genuinely mysterious, but also appears to have been made by people who are aware of and interested in their human characters’ flaws. Carlos Reygadas splices human drama...into beguiling, awe-inspiring panoramic landscape shots that give viewers a sense of scope and perspective that’s often lacking from other contemporary movies about faith and religion.
Simon Abrams, Rogerebert.com
'This latest masterpiece from the legendary filmmaker asks the hard questions about love and marriage and our fleeting existence. Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas has spawned his most narratively accessible and emotionally open work to date.'
' With his signature epic visuals — wide shots of majestic landscapes captured under stunning natural light — that lend grandeur to the intimate, the film is personal in essence, even if specifics differ from the director’s off-set life.'
Carlos Aguilar, The Wrap
‘A soul-searching work of scorching honesty that functions both as an anatomy of love and marriage, and as an evisceration of masculinity.’
Giovanni Marchini Camia, Sight and Sound
'It’s a film in which fabrications share the frame with natural phenomena, in which staged scenes give way to spontaneous life, in which the unexpected and inexplicable invade what had seemed situationally familiar. Our Time is the kind of film that’s capable of inverting our entire understanding of cinematic truth...
Reygadas is stealing and bending select moments from a non-fictional reality that’s wilder and less predictable than anything he or we could ever devise. It’s daunting, but also inviting.'
'An elemental and endlessly fascinating work'
Jason Wood, ICA website
Links
Download Pressbook
Interview with Carlos Reygadas in Film Comment
Bookings & Press
For film bookings please contact Colin Burch at Verve Pictures — [email protected]. Press resources are on the Press page.