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Those hoping the narrative wackiness of “Post tenebras lux” was an aberration in Carlos Reygadas’ career might long for the earlier film’s Dadaist jumps after watching “Our Time,” a maddeningly over-indulgent bid at self-analysis on screen that even the director’s shrink might find banal. Once again corralling his family into the picture, the director stars as a rancher-poet whose ideas about open marriage are challenged when his wife (naturally played by Reygadas’ wife Natalia López) rather too much enjoys an affair with their American horse-whisperer. Shots of testosterone-charged bulls are flagrantly inserted to ensure audiences get the mundane commentary on masculinity, though they’re far preferable to scenes between husband and wife.

The director’s collaborations with cinematographers have always resulted in visuals of remarkable, unnerving beauty, yet even in this department “Our Time” has less to astonish than in previous films. Die-hard acolytes will argue that the...

"Have you been drinking, or what?" A trailer has premiered for the film Our Time, originally Nuestro Tiempo, the latest film from acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. This is premiering at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals this week, which is why the trailer is out now, even though the film is still looking for a distributor. Reygadas is a vibrant, visual filmmaker and this film runs almost three hours. The story follows a family in the Mexican countryside who raise fighting bulls. When Esther becomes infatuated with a horse trainer named Phil, the couple struggles to stride through the emotional crisis. Reygadas states: "When we love someone, do we want her or his well-being above all else? Or only to the extent that such implicit act of generosity does not affect us too much? In short: Is love a relative matter?" Starring Carlos Reygadas himself, plus Natalia López, Eleazar Reygadas,...

Six years after Post Tenebras Lux, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas is returning. The highly-anticipated Our Time (aka Nuestro Tiempo) will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival next week, followed by a stop at Toronto International Film Festival, and now the first trailer has landed.

The film follows Reygadas himself alongside his real-life wife Natalia López in a story of a marriage in crisis, though the trailer teases a film far more expansive than that logline, especially considering its 173-minute runtime. Shot by Diego García, the cinematographer behind Neon Bull, Cemetery of Splendor, and the forthcoming Wildlife, we know it’ll at least be thoroughly gorgeous.

Reygadas has said in a director’s statement, “When we love someone, do we want her or his wellbeing above all else? Or only to the extent that such implicit act of generosity does not affect us too much? In short: Is love a relative matter?...