"Director: Carlos Reygadas"

• Post Tenebras Lux | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) is a wealthy industrialist who has chosen to live with his wife and two children away from the trappings of wealth and the city. Yet isolation in this superficially idyllic rural landscape seems to have brought little peace to his world. Juan's marriage to Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) is suffering under the strain of sexual ennui the banal rigors of bringing up young children and living in a community where he is clearly an outsider. The morality of family life is further complicated by Juan's post-colonial Mexican ethnicity and position as an employer and elite landowner in a country with an increasingly divergent wealth divide. Carlos Reygadas' (Battle in Heaven Silent Light) latest won Best Director in Cannes 2012. It's a gorgeous allusive masterpiece examining marriage poverty class gender our place in nature and how evil lives with us in the most intimate and ordinary of places. It's a wonder. Special Features: Trailer Interviews

• Post Tenebras Lux | Blu Ray | (22/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Juan (Adolfo Jiménez Castro) is a wealthy industrialist who has chosen to live with his wife and two children away from the trappings of wealth and the city. Yet isolation in this superficially idyllic rural landscape seems to have brought little peace to his world. Juan's marriage to Natalia (Nathalia Acevedo) is suffering under the strain of sexual ennui the banal rigors of bringing up young children and living in a community where he is clearly an outsider. The morality of family life is further complicated by Juan's post-colonial Mexican ethnicity and position as an employer and elite landowner in a country with an increasingly divergent wealth divide. Carlos Reygadas' (Battle in Heaven Silent Light) latest won Best Director in Cannes 2012. It's a gorgeous allusive masterpiece examining marriage poverty class gender our place in nature and how evil lives with us in the most intimate and ordinary of places. It's a wonder. Special Features: Trailer Interviews

• Battle In Heaven | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £6.86   |  Saving you £13.13 (191.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Battle In Heaven is the controversial hit from Cannes by Carlos Reygadas the director of Japn. Carlos Reygadas delivers a poignant insight into the actions and thoughts of a kidnapper in Mexico. Marcus tries to live with the consequences of his actions as well as the infatuation with his employer's daughter Battle In Heaven is sexually explicit but directed with quiet realism using non-professional actors; Anapola Mushkadiz in particul

• Silent Light | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £8.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (100.12%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Silent Light is the latest breathtaking work from Carlos Reygadas the controversial and prestigious director of the award-winning Battle in Heaven and Jap''n. Johan is the head of a family in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico. However he goes against the law of both God and men by falling in love with another woman and although he is honest with his wife about the affair his actions create conflict in their otherwise serine and tranquil existence. An enlightening and engaging exploration of moral and spiritual crises Silent Light's poetic tone at times invokes Dreyer Bergman and even Kubrick as it weaves its intricate and brilliant way to one of cinema's most exquisite finales. A modern classic from one of the greatest film-makers of our time.

• Silent Light | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Silent Light is the latest breathtaking work from Carlos Reygadas the controversial and prestigious director of the award-winning Battle in Heaven and Japn. Johan is the head of a family in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico. However he goes against the law of both God and men by falling in love with another woman and although he is honest with his wife about the affair his actions create conflict in their otherwise serine and tranquil existence. An enlightening and engaging exploration of moral and spiritual crises Silent Light's poetic tone at times invokes Dreyer Bergman and even Kubrick as it weaves its intricate and brilliant way to one of cinema's most exquisite finales. A modern classic from one of the greatest film-makers of our time.

• Our Time | Blu Ray | (23/09/2019) from £8.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Real-life couple Reygadas and his wife Natalia play Juan and Esther, who live a peaceful yet unusual existence on a Mexican cattle ranch; unusual insofar as they are in an open relationship and Esther is having an affair with an American horse trainer. Juan, for his part, can handle it as long as he hears how things are going, but when Natalia stops giving him information, the dynamic quickly shifts, forcing Juan to examine his fragile masculinity. In between, Reygadas captures the ecstasy of life in thrillingly beautiful natural sequences, delivering another stunning entry in his already-impressive filmography.

• Japon | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man leaves Mexico city for the remote countryside where he intends to end his life. There he finds lodging with an old Indian woman Ascen in her ramshackle home overlooking a desolate canyon. In the vastness of this wild breathtaking natural landscape the old woman's infinite humanity reawakens his dulled senses and desires. Inspired by the visionary cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky Carlos Reygadas' extraordinary debut feature stunningly shot in panoramic cinemascope is an enig

• Battle In Heaven | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cast entirely with non-professionals Battle in Heaven tells the story of Marcos (Marcos Hernandez) the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz) daughter of a Mexican general. Marcos is the only member of Ana's household who knows she leads a double life. Although a child of Mexico's political elite Ana amuses herself by working as a prostitute in a high-end brothel. But Marcos also has a secret. He and his wife (Berta Ruiz) kidnapped a baby for ransom and the infant died in their custody. When he confesses to Ana a bond of secrecy consecrated by the flesh unites them. As the police draw closer Ana urges Marcos to turn himself in but he seeks redemption from a higher power...

• Battle In Heaven | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Battle In Heaven is the controversial hit from Cannes by Carlos Reygadas the director of Jap''n. Carlos Reygadas delivers a poignant insight into the actions and thoughts of a kidnapper in Mexico. Marcus tries to live with the consequences of his actions as well as the infatuation with his employer's daughter Battle In Heaven is sexually explicit but directed with quiet realism using non-professional actors; Anapola Mushkadiz in particular is a sensual revelation. Nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes it narrowly lost out to L'Enfant.