Title rated 3.05 out of 5 stars, based on 37 ratings(37 ratings)
DVD, 2019
Current format, DVD, 2019, Director-approved two-DVD special edition., Available .
DVD, 2019
Current format, DVD, 2019, Director-approved two-DVD special edition., Available . Offered in 0 more formats
"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"--Container.
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