Box office returns would suggest that if you are reading this you’ve already seen Inception, Christopher Nolan’s latest summer-blockbuster-meets-high-art release that tells the tale of Cobb, the dream pirate, and his team of sleepytime co-conspirators. While Inception passes itself off as a psychological thriller, it is also a new kind of apocalypse movie, [...]
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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 [...]
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