Movie
Post Tenebras Lux
Overview
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Details
- Release date
- 2012-11-22
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- No Dream Cinema, Mantarraya Producciones, Ticoman, Le Pacte, ARTE France Cinéma, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad, The Match Factory, Topkapi Films, Servicios Andrómeda Films, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film
- Country
- France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands
- Original language
- ES
Cast
- Adolfo Jimenez Castro as Juan
- Nathalia Acevedo as Natalia
- Willebaldo Torres as Siete
- Rut Reygadas as Rut
- Eleazar Reygadas as Eleazar
- Suemi Valderrama as Samantha
Crew
- Carlos Reygadas - Director
- Carlos Reygadas - Screenplay
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