I haven't disliked a movie this much in a while. It's about a man in a Mennonite community in Mexico (the group is German, so both German and Spanish is spoken) who has six or seven kids and apparently loves his wife. He is also cheating on her with another woman in the community. I have no idea how this got in my queue. If I figure out who recommended it, I'm going to put a Tod Solondz movie in their queue.
The pace is not slow - oh no. It is glacial. The scenery is beautiful, but the camera-work is insane. The camera will sit on an innocuous object, such as a car side-view mirror, for a freakish amount of time. I wasn't seeing much in the way of symbolism; it was just boring, and sometimes unnerving.
The ending was heading to a cool place when the director, Carlos Reygadas, threw in a twist that I did not understand. I mean - I didn't understand what happened to the characters. It made very little sense logically or stylistically.
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