Japón / NoDream Cinema presenta, con la colaboración de Mantarraya Producciones, y con la participación de Solaris Film, Fondo Hubert Bals, Festival Internacional de Rótterdam, ZDF/arte ; guión y dirección, Carlos Reygadas C. ; producida por NoDream Cinema ; productores, Mantarraya Producciones, Carlos Serrano Azcona ; productor, Carlos Reygadas C.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
2 videodiscs (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Container of (work): Japón (Motion picture) Container of (work): Adulte (Motion picture)
Notes:
Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Carlos Reygadas Barquín, Martín Serrano, Rolando Hernández, Yolanda Villa, Claudia Rodríguez, Bernabé "El Gordo" Pérez. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Carlos Reygadas; Conversation between Reygadas and filmmaker Amat Escalante filmed in Nov. 2017; Video diary shot by actor Alejandro Ferretis during the film's production; Adulte, a 1998 short film by Reygadas; Deleted scene; Trailer; A booklet featuring an essay by novelist Valeria Luiselli, behind-the-scenes photographs and a selection of Reygada's original storyboards.
Contents:
disc one. [Feature film]; Carlos Reygadas (conversation between Reygadas and Amat Escalante); deleted scene; trailer -- disc two. Production diary; Adulte.
Summary:
"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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