JAPN [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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, Japon is an existential journey through uncharted cinematic territory that established the singular voice of its director.;
• Cast: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano, Rolando Hernández, Bernabe Pérez, Fernando Benítez, Carlo Reygadas Barquín, Carlos Reygadas, Carlos Serrano Azcona, Diego Martínez Vignatti, Daniel Melguizo, David Torres, Ramón Moreira, Gilles Laurent, Alejandro Reygadas, Elsa Díaz
• Director: Carlos Reygadas
• Runtime: 2:14
• Company: Bodega Films, No Dream Cinema, Mantarraya Producciones, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne), Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), Hubert Bals Fund (International Film Festival Rotterdam), CMC Agnes B., Semarnat, Hidalgo Films, Solaris Filmproduktion, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie