FILM
Batalla en el cielo (Battle in Heaven)
Carlos Reygadas
France / France, 2005
35mm (35mm). 98min. Color22:00hProduction: Gerardo Tagle, Philippe Bober, Carlos Reygadas, Jaime Romandia, Susanne Marian
Photography: Diego Martínez Vignatti
Editor: Benjamín Mirguet, Adoración G. Elipe, Nicolás Schmerkin
Screenplay: Carlos Reygadas
Music: John Tavener, J. S. Bach
Actors: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, David Bornstein, Rosalinda Ramírez, Juan Soria "El Abuelo"Sinopsis:
Marcos, a driver for a general, and his wife kidnapped a child who died accidentally. In another world, Ana, daughter of Marcos's boss, prostitutes herself for pleasure. Tormented by regret, Marcos confesses what happened to Ana in an attempt to find comfort. His search for redemption, though, will lead him on a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Carlos Reygadas's Batalla en el cielo, like his earlier film Japón (2002), employs a cast of non-professionals, draws on the traditions of European modernist cinema and centrally features graphic sex involving types of bodies usually denied erotic existence in cinematic representation.
"I wanted to do something that was very tight and precise, always sticking to what I feel is the essence of cinema, which is observation. If you don't observe, you will miss the film... you might miss a gesture that could be the key to understanding some crucial communication. In other films, these things are said many times out loud. This is why you shouldn't take your eyes off the screen, because you might miss something that won't be said again in any other way."
