Battle in Heaven
The secret lives of a middle-aged chauffeur and a wayward young woman.
Mexican film director Carlos Reygadas was lauded as one of the bright young stars at the last Cannes Film Festival, said Kirk Honeycutt in The Hollywood Reporter. That was before anyone saw his highly touted second feature, Battle in Heaven, which is bookended by a graphic sex scene. The film turned out to be so annoying and unerotic that it was hard for the audience
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