... Reygadas has made a sensationalist picture in which all the sensation is willfully dulled.
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03/10/06
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Battle in Heaven (2006)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:23
Rotten:30
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Though it tries to be provocative, Battle in Heaven is lethargic and mind-numbing.
Theatrical Release:Feb 17, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Cast entirely with non-professionals, Battle in Heaven tells the story of Marcos (Marcos Hernandez), the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), daughter of a Mexican general. Marcos is... [More]
Starring: Marcos Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz
Director: Carlos Reygadas
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Reviews for Battle in Heaven
Top Critic...not to say that "Battle in Heaven" is a bad film, just a rehash of earlier ideas
03/04/06
...a tawdry march through the lives of a bunch of slow-witted, thyroid-impaired moral imbeciles.
02/27/06
Mr. Reygadas has played the anti-narrative film-festival game with the most voyeuristic means at his disposal, and then stuck on a luridly melodramatic plot almost as an afterthought.
02/23/06
Top CriticIt took four countries -- Mexico, France, Germany and Belgium -- to make a movie as bad as Carlos Reygadas' Battle in Heaven. They wasted a lot of tax-relief money in pesos, francs and marks, but you’d be a fool to waste any U.S. dollars.
02/23/06
Top CriticI'd be lying if I didn't say this is one of the more original and piercing films I've seen in awhile.
02/19/06
A hypnotic, ruminative examination of class, religion, and sexuality in contemporary Mexico, Carlos Reygadas' Battle in Heaven is cinema at its most polarizing.
02/18/06
Will one day make its mark in the film canon as the singular film experience it is
02/17/06
Overexposed and underdeveloped.
02/17/06
It's the way in which these 'debased' elements come together in a Christian allegory of sin and redemption that resists easy, reassuring interpretation.
02/17/06
Reyadas' radical rejection of filmmaking conventions is at first off-putting, but he's able to elicit remarkable performances from the cast of non-professionals while building tension that will hold viewers' attention.
02/17/06
Ambitious, challenging and exceedingly frustrating.
02/17/06
Not everyone is going to be willing or able to take this leap of faith, but those who do go along with Reygadas may well feel they have come away having undergone a stunning revelatory experience.
02/17/06
Top CriticTo say that sacred and profane imagery are daringly juxtaposed here would be seriously understating the case.
02/17/06
If all this sounds artistically daring to you, you'll love it. Also, you're insane.
02/17/06
Explicitness is crucial to meaning -- by dwelling on the trim and beautiful versus the flabby and ordinary, Reygadas emphasizes both physical closeness and economic distance.
02/16/06
[Reygadas has] got an astonishing technique. Here's hoping that someday he'll use it to make a movie.
02/16/06
At once unmoored and ruthlessly calculating, the Mexican film Battle in Heaven has everything for everyone or perhaps nothing at all.
02/16/06
Whereas Reygadas' first film felt like the unadulterated expression of a raw and original artistic voice, his second bears all the markings of a movie made for a constituency.
02/16/06
Fighting cliche, presenting the most flawed people as sympathetic and occasionally averting his camera eye as his characters neglect the saving of their own souls, Reygadas has made a movie that is itself an ethical dilemma.
02/16/06
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