Directed by:
Carlos ReygadasScreenplay:
Carlos ReygadasCinematography:
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In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman (Magdalena Flores) whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires. Recruiting a cast of nonactors and filming in sublime 16 mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican countryside with earthy tactility, conjuring a psychic landscape where religion mingles with sex, life coexists with death, and the animal and spiritual sides of human experience become indistinguishable. A work of soaring ambition and startling visual poetry, Japón is an existential journey through uncharted cinematic territory that established the singular voice of its director. (Criterion)
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Alejandro Ferretis
Mexico
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Japón (2002)
Magdalena Flores
Mexico
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Japón (2002)
Yolanda Villa
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Japón (2002)
Martín Serrano
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Japón (2002)
Rolando Hernández
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Japón (2002)