Report from the 2005 Toronto Film Festival: I get to stay at the Paramount for my Next film, from Mexico: "Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el Cielo)".
My two favorite parts of this film? Mexico City is a star of this film; you really get a sense of what it would be like to be that very busy city. The Director stated in the Q/A that there was zero extras used, it was a local folks, and just who ever was the street. Second favorite part... the very cute "Anapola Mushkadiz".
And oh yeah, the sound design was very interesting, the director spent 7 weeks just on the sound. My guess, two weeks on the rest of the film. Man this film just drags on. One scene, driving from the Airport to downtown must have lasted 20 minutes and nothing really happens. The music is jarring (I suspect that was the intent). There are some of the most un-erotic sex scenes ever captured on film. Ugly was the word passing through my mind. Sad Characters... which you learn nothing about. The opening and closing scene insures that it will never play at a multi-plex near you. What I got from the director "Carlos Reygadas" during the Q/A Was that he thought it was creating a piece of art. Partly right he created a piece of something alright.
My two favorite parts of this film? Mexico City is a star of this film; you really get a sense of what it would be like to be that very busy city. The Director stated in the Q/A that there was zero extras used, it was a local folks, and just who ever was the street. Second favorite part... the very cute "Anapola Mushkadiz".
And oh yeah, the sound design was very interesting, the director spent 7 weeks just on the sound. My guess, two weeks on the rest of the film. Man this film just drags on. One scene, driving from the Airport to downtown must have lasted 20 minutes and nothing really happens. The music is jarring (I suspect that was the intent). There are some of the most un-erotic sex scenes ever captured on film. Ugly was the word passing through my mind. Sad Characters... which you learn nothing about. The opening and closing scene insures that it will never play at a multi-plex near you. What I got from the director "Carlos Reygadas" during the Q/A Was that he thought it was creating a piece of art. Partly right he created a piece of something alright.