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Set in a Mennonite farming community in Mexico, this enveloping art film by Carlos Reygadas (Japon, Battle in Heaven) uses long takes, stunning scenes of natural splendor, and plainspoken performances by actual believers to create a hypnotic experience in which every shot tends to create its own powerful reality. Though this moves at a languid pace, the story is as simple, sturdy, and well constructed as an old barn: a farmer's wife and mother of six young children (Miriam Toews) suffers in silence as her husband (Cornelio Wall) pursues an affair with a single woman who lives in town (Maria Pankratz); anguished over his wife's pain but convinced he's found his true love, the husband seeks advice from friends and family, weighing his responsibility to God and himself. A startling climax recycles the ending of Carl Dreyer's Ordet (1955), exposing some of Reygadas's artifice and pretense, but this is still an unforgettable experience. In the Germanic tongue Plattdeutsch, with subtitles. 136 min.
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