August 22, 2009
naked bodies you really did not want to see, galore.
Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz, Brenda Angulo
Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general he drives for, who prostitutes herself for p...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 9, 2006
Stats: 463 reviews
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May 2, 2008First movie made to date starring robots disguised as humans. Thus, explaining the lack of anything that remotely looks like a human emotion, or normal human behaviour, in this film.
Anyway, Reygadas can't trick me with his smoke curtains, the man wanted to film fat people screw...( read more) -
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April 6, 2007An uneasy film with some strange beauty. Interestin camera work to say the least. It opens with a blowjob!!
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March 11, 2007Ugly fat guy sleeps with prostitute in graphic sex scene. Slow, plot-less, with characters you couldn't care less about let alone identify with.
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October 6, 2009Whenever a director defies rules,criticism rises.Reygadas isn't yet a big art-house name.He dares and no matter how sour his anti-Catholic story may seem,the fact he chooses to show ugliness in an enticing way,should we assume ugliness is a universal term by the "civilized" peopl...( read more)
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August 23, 2009Yes, it has graphic sex, but its not at all shocking. Story could have used more punch tho.
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August 14, 2009My pick for the greatest film of this decade. There is no light between the personal, the political, the religious, the cinematic and the Mexico in this film. Bunuel would have been proud.
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July 29, 2009It will definitely not appeal to the masses - I think it was designed that way. It's definitely art house but it's hard to categorize after that. Some sort of genre breaker for drama and erotica which turns into philosophical anti-erotica. You can tell I liked it - there's a cert...( read more)
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June 24, 2009Buena película, muy cruda.
Muy cruda, ˇaguas para los que van a jurarse de rodillas a la Villa!
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August 24, 2006
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
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