Light After Darkness
- IMDb link: 1754367
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (6,215 votes)
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Carlos Reygadas
- Cast: Nathalia Acevedo, Adolfo Jimenez Castro, Rut Reygadas, Eleazar Reygadas and others
- Release date: 23 Nov 2012
- Release year: 2012
- Runtime: 115 minutes
- Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
- Keywords: female nudity, female frontal nudity, large breasts, female full frontal nudity, female rear nudity, limp penis, male nudity, male full frontal nudity, sex therapy, nonlinear timeline
Plot:
In rural Mexico, Juan and Natalia, an upper-middle-class couple move with their young children to the countryside seeking a simpler, more "authentic" life. Their pastoral dream gradually fractures as tensions emerge - between husband and wife, adults and children, landowners and workers. Blending realism with dreamlike, surreal imagery (including a mysterious red devil figure), the film moves fluidly across time and space, exploring guilt, violence, class division, sexuality, and spiritual unease. Rather than a linear narrative, it presents fragments of memory and inner turmoil, portraying a world where domestic life, desire, and moral darkness coexist beneath moments of natural beauty.