Here is a film that could easily have been a grotesque caricature study that bashes the shit out of the Bush administration, but it is actually an illuminating biopic that seeks to understand one of our nation’s greatest failures. Staunch liberal Oliver Stone refuses to take the Michael Moore route and, instead, employs the [...]
Carlos Reygadas’s intractable, luminous film deals in punishing obscurity, uncommonly beautiful images and a kind of tight-lipped mysticism that jibes with the story’s German-speaking Mennonites who have cloistered themselves in Chihuahua, Mexico. The old folks bucked and snorted at the deliberate, lingering pace and the easily pretentious conversations referring to God and “the enemy” (the [...]