Against Nature

A quiet, slow immersion into a harsh rural world where the spiritual and the physical blur, demanding patience and rewarding it with unease.

Directed by

Axel Bertha

Genres

Drama

Starring

Jonathan Zárate, Esmeralda Gaytan, Norberto Gaytan

Overview

After many years away, Jonás returns to the countryside to start work as a stonemason. In a place marked by the harshness of life, he opens himself up to something intangible – a force that permeates the landscape, bodies and time itself. An evocatively told story of a silent man whose enigmatic nature stems from the dark side of humanity and from his contact with the sacred, the film moves along the boundary between the physical and the spiritual.

How it feels

Dark, melancholic, eerie and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Isolation, faith, identity, death

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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