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courtneyriot

courtneyriot

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

JUN 04, 2006 06:00 AM

Mexican native Ana Mushkadiz is the star of the brilliant and controversial Battle in Heaven. Battle in Heaven features explicit real sex and was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The film is the second feature film from Carlos Reygadas whose first film, Japon, also featured real sex and had real sex in it. Battle in Heaven is about a man [played by Marcos Hernandez] and his wife who kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. Marcos confesses his guilt to...

RayCasino

RayCasino

Finland
December 2004

JUN 04, 2006 10:24 AM

She's lovely, but Battle In Heaven was crap. I'm sure I didn't entirely "get it", but from what I got out of it, I didn't miss much. The imaginery was nice and Reygadas used sound in a pretty clever way in a couple of scenes, but mostly it was just overly pretentious artschool wankery.

I really liked Japón though, so that made BiH's awfulness even more depressing.

[Edited on Jun 04, 2006 by RayCasino]