Carlos Reygadas

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Full Name	Carlos Reygadas
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 10, 1971(1971-10-10)
Age	53
Birthplace	Mexico City
Country	Mexico
Horoscope	Libra

Carlos Reygadas Biography

Carlos Reygadas is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on October 10, 1971 in Mexico City, Mexico. Japon contains scenes of animal cruelty. The British Board of Film Classification requested that the film be cut for UK release. This was in accordance to the Cinematograph Films Act (Animals) Act 1937. The scenes that were removed are: an unsuccessful attempt at strangling a bird, which then falls to the ground with injuries. A dog is forced to sing along to a painful stimulus by being forced to. Unsimulated scenes include a bird being shot and then having its head cut off and the (off-camera) killing of a pig.

Reygadas is often called “the one-man third waves of Mexican cinema”. His films are considered art films and are well-known for their expressive cinematography, long takes and emotionally charged stories. His first and third films, Japon 2002 and Silent Light (2007) made him one Latin America’s most prominent director-writers. Many critics have ranked Silent Light among the top films of its decade. His films Battle in Heaven (2006) and Post Tenebras Lux (2011) split critics.

In early 2012, Reygadas released Post Tenebras Lux, a semi-autobiographical fiction film, he said has “feelings, memories, dreams, things I’ve hoped for, fears, facts of my current life.” As film critic Francine Prose has written, the movie “shifts back and forth between present and past, reality and fantasy, childhood and adulthood [and] offers us a set of images and sequences to which it repeatedly returns; with each of these reprises the image or sequence takes on additional meaning, depth, and nuance.” In an interview at the Berlin Festival, Reygadas said that “reason will intervene as little as possible, like an expressionist painting where you try to express what you’re feeling through the painting rather than depict what something looks like.” The film was shot in Mexico, Britain, Spain, and Belgium, all places where Reygadas has lived, and at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival won the prize of Best Director Award.

Currently, Reygadas in working on his fifth film, titled Donde nace la vida, (2016) with the collaboration of Uruguayan cinematographer Diego Garcia, who worked in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Love and in Khon Kaen and Yulene Olaizola’s Fogo. The film’s executive producer and Reygadas’s long-time business partner, Jaime Romandia, has stated that the film is “a simple but powerful story of love and loss of love, in open couple relationships, emotional phases on the downfall set in the context of Mexico’s fighting bull- breeding ranches.” In addition to working in his own films, in 2004 Reygadas has also co-produced the film Sangre directed by the young filmmaker Amat Escalante who had worked as his assistant in Battle in Heaven. Presented at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Sangre won in the Un Certain Regard section and was also scrrened in other festivals, such as the Toulouse Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival. Furthermore, he has worked with the Spanish director and producer Jaime Rosales (Fresdeval Films), in the film El árbol (The Tree). This Spanish-Mexican co-production was directed by Carlos Serrano Azcona and starred Bosco Sodi, a contemporary artist, as the main character. The film was presented at the 2009 Rotterdam Film Festival and received positive reviews.

Reygadas started writing his first feature-length film two years after Maxhumain was released. The film was called Japon and began shooting in 2001. The film was finished and presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival. It also received a special mention at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or Award, as well the Coral Award at the Havana Film Festival. Japon (2002) was criticized for its disregard of traditional dramatic structure. It created a new cinematographic language that is sensitive to the sensory world that humans live in and reflects life as a transcendental experience. The title of the film questions the simple correlation between signifiers and signifieds. Although it is named after Japan in the title, the movie is set in Hidalgo, a remote, impoverished town.

Carlos Reygadas Net Worth

Carlos Reygadas is one of the richest Film Director from Mexico. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carlos Reygadas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carlos Reygadas Castillo (Spanish pronunciation: [‘karlos rej’gadas] ; born October 10, 1971) is a Mexican filmmaker. Reygadas’ films are influenced by existentialist philosophy and art. They feature spiritual journeys into his characters’ inner worlds through which themes such as love, suffering, death and the meaning of life are explored.

Reygadas was first fascinated by cinema in 1987 after watching the films of Andrei Tarkovsky (a Soviet/Russian filmmaker who had died in the previous year). He entered a Belgian film competition with Maxhuman, his first short film.

Similarly to Japón, in his third movie, Silent Light (2007), Reygadas’ shatters the very notion that art in “developing nations” should be read as a social, historical or cultural reference to their country of origin. This film, set in a historic Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico, tells the story of a married man who falls in love with another woman, thus threatening the stability of his family and their place within the conservative community they live in. The dialogue is written in Plautdietsch language, the Low German dialect of the Mennonites, and hence questions a stereotypical conception of what defines Mexico and Mexicans alike. Furthermore, Silent Light shows several similarities to Ordet (1955) by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Although Reygadas’ film is not a remake of the European movie it is to a great degree influenced by it, thus accentuating the universality of his work. American director Martin Scorsese described Silent Light as “a surprising picture, and a very moving one as well,”, while Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called it “an apparently simple story about forgiving” in which “the images are of extraordinary beauty” and “the characters seem to be illuminated from the inside.” [1]. Silent Lightwas very positively reviewed by most critics, and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 24th Independent Spirit Awards and gained nine nominations, including all major categories, in the Ariel Awards, the Mexican national film awards. Furthermore, the film competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and came away as winner of the Jury Prize. The magazine Sight & Sound rated it number 6 on their list of the top films of 2007, while Roger Ebert ranked the film one of the top ten independent films of 2009.

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