7:30 ‘battle in heaven'
>>dir. carlos reyagadas mexico , france , germany , belgium , netherland, 2005
carlos reyagadas second movie. his first feature, japón (shown at our screenings in the past), was a fascinating, beautifully photographed work that used semi-improvised performances by non-professionals. battle in heaven seems to have been achieved in much the same way, taking a broadly imagined storyboard and modifying ideas and characterisation around the amateur actors' contributions. but there is now some straining to make the evolving pieces fit together. In japón, reygadas showed older people with real bodies having sex; the same thing happens here, but reygadas also uses younger, more gorgeous women - and theirs, incidentally, are the only kinds of bodies permitted to appear on the poster .
the possibility of redemption, the potential for making amends after an unforgivable act, the continued need for love in someone who has committed such an act
monday'screening [17 th april]
1A Thistlewaite Rd.
E5 0QG
/lower Clapton, buses: 48,55,38,106 …/
7:30 ‘battle in heaven'
>>dir. carlos reyagadas mexico , france , germany , belgium , netherland, 2005
carlos reyagadas second movie. his first feature, japón (shown at our screenings in the past), was a fascinating, beautifully photographed work that used semi-improvised performances by non-professionals. battle in heaven seems to have been achieved in much the same way, taking a broadly imagined storyboard and modifying ideas and characterisation around the amateur actors' contributions. but there is now some straining to make the evolving pieces fit together. In japón, reygadas showed older people with real bodies having sex; the same thing happens here, but reygadas also uses younger, more gorgeous women - and theirs, incidentally, are the only kinds of bodies permitted to appear on the poster .
the possibility of redemption, the potential for making amends after an unforgivable act, the continued need for love in someone who has committed such an act
risky experiment in narrative-conceptual art.