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BATTLE IN HEAVEN
BATALLA EN EL CIELO

• Director: Carlos Reygadas
• MEXICO, FRANCE, GERMANY, BELGIUM / 2005 / DCP / Colour / 98’ / Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Carlos Reygadas
• Director of Photography: Diego Martinez Vignatti
• Editing: Benjamin Mirguet, Adoración G. Elipe, Nicolas Schmerkin
• Cast: Marcos Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, David Bronstein
• Producer: Philippe Bober, Carlos Reygadas, Jaime Romandia, Susanne Marian
• Production Co.: Société Parisienne de Production, No Dream Cinema, Mantarraya, Essential Films, MaceyCo, Tarantula BE
• World Sales: Coproduction Office

2005 Rio de Janeiro FIPRESCI Prize

Often forcing boundaries, Carlos Reygadas, in his second feature, signals the dilemma of the individual in the class and social structure of Mexico. Set in Mexico City, the story features a middle-aged man, who drives a general, and his wife who are responsible for the death of a baby they had abducted in order to make easy money. While the driver struggles with this horrid secret, he adopts a regular routine of sexual relations with the general’s daughter. Although this relationship seems to break some sort of inter-class barrier, the consequence of this ‘delusion’ turns out to be a violent reflection of guilt and rage. Battle in Heaven still splits the critics and audiences with the graphic sex scenes and its sometimes unconventional narrative.

*Scenes of violence/sex might disturb some viewers.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.