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Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican filmmaker known for formally rigorous art cinema featuring nonprofessional performers, sparse dialogue, and sustained attention to landscape and spiritual conflict. His films include Japón, Battle in Heaven, Silent Light, Post Tenebras Lux, and Our Time. Reygadas received the Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award for Post Tenebras Lux, while Silent Light won the festival's Jury Prize.
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What happens in Carlos Reygadas's Japón?
Japón, Reygadas's 2002 first feature, follows a man who leaves the city intending to die in a remote Mexican valley. The landscape and his relationship with an older woman gradually challenge that plan. ([International Film Festival Rotterdam](https://iffr.com/en/person/carlos-reygadas))
Why is Silent Light important in Carlos Reygadas's career?
Silent Light was released in 2007 and won the Jury Prize at Cannes, shared ex aequo. It is a slow, visually focused drama about spiritual conflict in a rural community. ([Festival de Cannes](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/p/carlos-reygadas/))
What award did Post Tenebras Lux win at Cannes?
Post Tenebras Lux won the Best Director award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film is known for its distorted, dreamlike images and its movement between family life, landscape, and spiritual unease. ([Festival de Cannes](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/p/carlos-reygadas/))
What is Our Time about?
Our Time, released in 2018, follows Esther and Juan, a poet who raises fighting bulls on a Mexican ranch, after Esther begins an affair with horse trainer Phil. Reygadas's real-life wife Natalia López plays Esther. ([Venice Biennale](https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2018/lineup/venezia-75-competition/nuestro-tiempo))
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