Our Time

Carlos Reygadas wrote, directed, and starred in Our Time (Nuestro tiempo, 2018) — watch online on iFILM — a Mexican art-house drama about an open marriage slowly coming apart. He plays Juan, a celebrated poet raising fighting bulls on a ranch in the Mexican countryside. His wife Esther manages the estate. They agreed on an open arrangement. The film competed in the main competition at Cannes 2018.

Things fracture when Esther falls for an American horse trainer. Juan wrote the terms of their arrangement himself. Living inside those terms turns out to feel different from writing them. The film spends close to three hours on that gap between stated principles and what actually happens.

Reygadas cast his real-life wife Natalia López as Esther, which gives the film an edge that's hard to manufacture. At 177 minutes it's deliberately slow — the right film for someone willing to sit with sustained discomfort. Watch Our Time online on iFILM.