Singapore International Film Festival 2018
Our Time
Language
Spanish - subtitles to be advised
Cast
Carlos Reygadas, Natalia López, Phil Burgers
Synopsis
On a ranch in Mexico, bulls lock horns in open fields, and neighbourhood children frolic beneath vast, unpredictable skies. Renowned poet Juan lives in the ranch house with his wife Esther, who helps run the farm. The couple take a very liberal view on matrimony—but when Esther begins a relationship with an American ranch hand who works for them, Juan faces an existential test.
To further describe the plot of Our Time is to oversimplify its conceptual complexity. Writer-director Carlos Reygadas puts forth, in ravishing widescreen, an honest (sometimes brutally so) auto-fiction about wounded pride and crumbling masculinity. Reygadas and his wife themselves play Juan and Esther, and the overlapping layers of reality and cinema make Our Time much more than your average marital drama.