Release Date: March 26, 2018
Criterion: $31.96
Amazon: N/A
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flore, Yolanda Villa
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.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
Criterion: $31.96
Amazon: N/A
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flore, Yolanda Villa
- Mexico
- 2002
- 134 minutes
- Color
- 2.66:1
- Spanish
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.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Carlos Reygadas, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between Reygadas and filmmaker Amat Escalante
- Video diary shot by actor Alejandro Ferretis during the film’s production
- Maxhumain, a short film directed by Reygadas in 1999
- Deleted scene
- Trailer
- PLUS: A new essay by novelist Valeria Luiselli
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