15 Most Weird And Twisted Movies This Decade (So Far)

9. Post Tenebras Lux

Mexican director Carlos Reygadas is one of the few contemporary filmmakers who can be said to make films with the same intellectual and visual precision as the great masters - Silent Light felt like he was channeling the essence of Bergman, while Battle In Heaven stood as a testament to the nihilistic impulse in modern man. With Post Tenebras Lux - Latin for "light after darkness" - Reygadas took the autobiographical route, but this doesn't mean that the film is structured in a simplistic linear format, nor does it mean that it is a lucid and easily understood movie. Often dream-like - and sometimes nightmarish - this is a film in which the fluidity and ambiguity of memory informs the structure. Post Tenebras Lux earned Reygadas the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 - it's hard to disagree with this decision, since few films have been shot in such a beguiling manner.