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REYGADAS RETROSPECTIVE
MASTER CLASS WITH CARLOS REYGADAS
Films from the South and the Norwegian Film Institute
host a three-day Master Class for film professionals with
the award-winning director Carlos Reygadas.
”The Mexican is a highly gifted storyteller, a lyrical
and mature filmmaker with a rare ability for empathy
and uncompromising consequence. Great film art and
deep insights into life.”
- Per Haddal, Aftenposten
From the 13th to 15th of October 2009 Carlos Reygadas
will hold a Master Class for a selected group of Norwegian
film directors, producers and screenwriters. The goal
is to stimulate individuals in the Norwegian film industry
who wish to develop and cultivate a personal style of
storytelling in film.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Feature films
Silent Light (2007)
Battle in Heaven (2005)
Japón (2002)
AWARDS:
Carlos Reygadas has won a number of awards in the
classes of Best Film and Grand Prix all over the world.
In Cannes he has received:
The Jury Prize in 2007
Nomination for the Palme d’Or in 2005 & 2007
The Camera d’Or – special mention 2002
Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Spain 2002 Director/Script Carlos REYGADAS
Camera Diego Martínes VIGNATTI Cast Alejandro FERRETSI, Magdalena FLORES
Prod. NoDream Cinema Print Coproduction Office Language Spanish
Subtitles English Duration 131 min Format 35mm
Mexico, Belgium, France, Germany 2005 Director/Script Carlos REYGADAS
Camera Diego Martínes VIGNATTI Cast Marcos HERNANDÉZ, Anapola
MUSHKADIZ Prod. Mantarraya, NoDream Cinema Print Tour de Force
Language Spanish Subtitles Norwegian Duration 98 min Format 35mm
Mexico 2007 Director/Script Carlos REYGADAS Camera Alexis ZABE Cast Elisabeth
FEHR, Jacobo KLASSEN, Maria PANKRATZ Prod. Nodream Cinema, Mantarraya
Sales BAC films Print Arthaus Language Plautdietsch Subtitles Norwegian
Duration 137 min Format 35mm
JAPÓN
Japón
BATTLE IN HEAVEN
Batalla en Cielo
REYGADAS RETROSPECTIVE
Already in his sensational feature film debut Reygadas
proves his ability of creating completely unique and inscrutable
characters – a central element of his cinematic
explorations of the surface of the world and human beings‘
existential self-flagellation. In a plot reminiscent of Abbas
Kiarostami, an aging artist withdraws into the desolate
Mexican countryside to take his own life. However, his
melancholic character is forced into something other than
apathy by the merciless landscape and the old god-fearing
woman with whom he is lodging. mm
In an unforgettable opening scene Reygadas turns towards
the sublime in the shape of the human body. This means
not least that sex and raw nudity play a central part. Marcos
is a driver with an indefinable and unhealthy relationship
to his boss‘ daughter. Moreover, he kidnapped a baby with
his wife who died accidentally as a result. The characters
are stripped bare in a manner that is devoid of moralising,
while their large, meaty bodies insist on their sculptural
value. Rarely are cinema‘s visual conventions challenged
like this. mm
SILENT LIGHT
Stellet Licht
Not even the virtuous Mennonite (of German origin)
society in Mexico stand above the ramifications of desire;
the family father Johan struggles with his concience and
with God as he falls for another woman, in this painfully
beautiful exploration of love and forgiveness. With
amateurs in nearly every part and a patient and insistent
camera, Reygadas creates something as unlikely as a minimalist
melodrama. The spiritual theme and modelling with
light is a homage to Dreyer, while the portrait of the devout
and hardworking Mennonites is dignified, original and
exotic. mm
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