After Darkness, Light

Mexican director Carlos Reygadas is famous for exploring spirituality in stream-of-consciousness, dream-like films such as Silent Light and Battle in Heaven. His latest movie, Post Tenebras Lux (After Darkness, Light) also operates in that vein. It starts with scenes of a young girl running on a farm and then switches gears as we see a demon come into her room. The film includes several graphically violent scenes as Reygadas tries to portray what life is like in the remote Mexican wilderness where the young girl’s rich parents have moved their family. (Jeff Niesel)