Battle In Heaven
|
List Price: Our Price: $10.94 You Save: $12.00 (52%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $9.75 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Battle In Heaven
Movie Review: Oddly Powerful
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I was going to give this movie one star. It seemed to be just a mashup of obvious thematic studies: Sin and redemption; conflict between old/new in Mexico; class/ethnic/religious conflict, etc., with turgid, ponderous plotting and acting with some sex thrown in to sell a few more DVDs.
But then I kept coming back to unattractive it all was. There's always a certain charm in the vulgar; a comfort in the repetitive; and a fascination with intense lack of beauty. In the end, it's the polar opposite of what we expect movies to be. I think Reygadas gets it right.
Movie Review: Unique and Shocking
Summary: 5 Stars
From the open shot to the closing, the movie is shocking, in your face, and never dull. The sight of two grossly overweight people making love was new to film viewing. Again shocking and unique but very honestMovie Review: A great uncompromised film
Summary: 5 Stars
After Japon, Battle in Heaven. The rural life and the urban one. Extremely impressive work.Movie Review: about this title of DVDfilm/movie 'battle in heaven'
Summary: 3 Stars
This film is all about Ana (general's daughter) whose chauffer could not resist to sexual urge end up having sex with Ana which she later also slept with her boyfriend. ( a lot of other portion of the story in front) and end up Ana been stabbed to die by the chaeuffer due to his problematic personality which end up.....(very interesting, up to all to find out). Recommended to those whom are interested in this genre of DVDfilm/movie.
Battle In Heaven
Written by:
Dr, MR Franc MBBS (PhD) GPS Ang Poon Kah
MR Franc MBBS for Avoxin, True Vecomycin etc and medical finding
GPS for professional photographing from RPS for scenery.
Director David Yates for Hary Potter, Order of the Phoenix.
Director Paul Greengrass for Bourne Ultimatum.
Director Bill Nichie for Notes on the Scandal.
Director Ron Howard for Da Vinci Code.
Thank you and have a nice day watching my films.
Movie Review: [2.5]--You got to see it to believe it.
Summary: 2 Stars
This film was surly something. The opening and closing scene of this film insures that it would had never been play at a multi-plex near you. Battle in Heaven is a curious piece by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas. Sexually explicit, but largely unerotic, Reygadas explores the human body with a stark realism that isn't always easy on the eye and these actors are real people,...... and it shows.
In this story we have Marco (Marcos Hernandez) who has been a chauffeur for a General of the Army for fifteen years. His unnamed wife (Bertha Ruiz) hawks alarm clocks and pastry in a metro station. Both are middle-aged, unattractive, and overweight, the antithesis of Hollywood glamor. The film is framed by sexual acts, and explicitly realistic Dumont-like sex is sprinkled throughout, apparently designed to tweak our level of comfort rather than turn us on. As part of his job, Marcos chauffeurs the elite General's rebellious young daughter Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz) around town and he is the only one who knows about her secret life, turning tricks in a brothel. To clear the air and perhaps to receive some of her favors, Marcos admits to her that he and his wife kidnapped the baby of a friend and that the baby died accidentally.
Transcending racial taboos and class differences, Ana agrees to have sex with her driver but tells him to turn himself in to the police. Persuaded by his wife, however, he decides to wait until after the procession of Catholics to the shrine of the Lady of Guadeloupe.
Reygadas challenges our visual ideals about screen sex by zooming in on Marcos's flabby physique and his wife's pimpled, varicose veined flesh. There's no getting around the fact that neither of them were at the front of the queue when good looks were given out, and in many respects Reygadas has done something unique here with the sex scenes. But the end result of his experimentation serves as a distraction from the principle story and only adds to the alienation we're already beginning to feel towards his expressionless, unfathomable characters. They're totally lifeless and did not even engage me at all. I found myself wondering how much time had passed and wishing for shots to complete rather than watching the same shot for the next ten to fifteen seconds. A feeling I felt once before with The House of Mirth.
The music was sort of interesting and I read that the director spent 7 weeks just on the sound. My guess, two weeks on the rest of the film. Personally this film could of been told in under thirty minutes. The rest comprises of long, slow moving shots of people walking, standing, corridors, buildings, scenery, and non too erotic sex. Now when I talk about slow shots, I am talking about a five to ten second slow pan showing a character turn their head one way, followed by another long shot of their head turning the other way and the camera turning again. Or the excruciating scenes of characters just standing and looking. It was difficult to wait for the camera to catch up. The movie needed so much more editing, as it stand it would bring it down to a short, but there were many aspects of the story that could have actually been attempted to be explored on screen, even in a minimalist way. You better off watching another Mexican films like "Lolo," "Vera," "Japon," Pulque's Song" or a favorite of mine "Amores Perros."