Carlos Reygadas

Carlos Reygadas

Born: October 10, 1971
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican filmmaker. Influenced by existentialist art and philosophy, Reygadas' movies feature spiritual journeys into the inner worlds of his main characters, through which themes of love, suffering, death, and life's meaning are explored. Reygadas has been described as "the one-man third wave of Mexican cinema"; his works are generally considered art films, and are known for their expressionistic cinematography, long takes, and emotionally charged stories. Reygadas first became fascinated with cinema in 1987, upon watching the works of the acclaimed Soviet/Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who had died the previous year. In 1997, he entered a film competition in Belgium with his first short film, Maxhumain.

Movies for Carlos Reygadas...

Talking Heads 2021
Title: Talking Heads 2021
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
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Symphony Of The Invisible
Title: Symphony Of The Invisible
Character: Himself (voice)
Released: November 17, 2020
Type: Movie
"Symphony of the Invisible" is a reflection on creation and how through art, poetry and images you can break the limits that have been imposed on language and life itself.
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Our Time
Title: Our Time
Character: Juan
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.
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Wiara
Title: Wiara
Character: Himself
Released: January 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
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Por la libertad
Title: Por la libertad
Released: January 31, 2017
Type: Movie
In this portrait, Mexican light master Carlos Reygadas (Post Tenebras Lux, 2012) seldom addresses the camera directly, but allows himself to be filmed during his first commercial assignment. An unexpectedly playful approach from this solitary filmmaker, in which his driver has as much to say as he does.
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En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Title: En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret travels in the footsteps of Buñuel, from Calanda to Zaragoza, Madrid to Toledo, Spain to Mexico.
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Filmando Batalla en el Cielo
Title: Filmando Batalla en el Cielo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
BTS of Reygadas' 2005 film Battle in Heaven.