Battle of Heaven

Following on from his impressive debut feature JAPON, which won the Guardian New Director's Award at Edinburgh in 2002, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' BATTLE IN HEAVEN establishes him as one of the true visionaries of contemporary cinema. Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money but it all goes wrong when the child dies. Tortured by the tragedy, Marcos, a chauffeur to a general, decides to confess to his boss's daughter Ana, who prostitutes herself for fun.

Propelled by his guilt and confusion, Marcos' world descends into a downward spiral... An uncompromising, unorthodox and at times disturbing vision of human folly – certainly challenging and fresh from it's official selection screening at Cannes earlier in the year, BATTLE IN HEAVEN is certainly memorable merely because you don’t often see films like this at your local cinema.

Matt Arnoldi