For his latest film, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas looked inward, casting his own family in the 173-minute Our Time, set on a ranch as jealousy interrupts their way of life. Following a premiere on the fall festival circuit, Monument Releasing picked it up for a U.S. release and now a new trailer has arrived ahead of a June 14 release. If you’re looking to catch up on the director’s films, ahead of the theatrical premiere, the Museum of Moving Image will be hosting a Reygadas retrospective from June 8-13, and one can see more details here.
Ethan Vestby said in our TIFF review, “At least based of its original title of Where Life is Born, director Carlos Reygadas’ fifth feature film from the outset seemed to promise the ultimate realization of his festival-approved Transcendental Vision. Yet what we finally received instead six years after his last feature is a three-hour cuckold drama that’s thankfully at least a little closer in spirit to the lizard-brained surrealism of Post Tenebras Lux as opposed to his banalization of Dreyer (and still art-house calling card) Silent Light. One almost wants to describe it as admirably awkward; the feeling of both watching a train-wreck unfold in (very) slow-motion and a work of art that very boldly and genuinely seeks to please no one.”
See the trailer and poster below.
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. When Esther becomes infatuated with a horse-breaker, Juan seems incapable to reach his own expectations about himself.
Our Time opens on June 14 at Quad Cinema.