Directed by Carlos Reygadas • Drama • With Carlos Reygadas, Natalia López, Phil Burgers • 2018 • 87 minutes
A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horsebreaker and Juan is unable control his jealousy.
"[A] masterpiece. A continuous single take of an airplane breaking through the clouds as it descends on the Mexican capital, is the film's pièce de résistance, the stuff of masters." —The Wrap
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