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 to control his jealousy.
Direction
Reygadas casts himself and his actual wife. Method or madness?
Cinematography
Wide-angle nature that swallows human drama whole.
Acting
Non-actors bleeding real life into fiction.
Director
Carlos Reygadas
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