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## Summary: **9/10: a punishing, radiant debut that trades plot for prayer; Reygadas uses an impossible widescreen frame and a funeral liturgy of a score to make a parable about the one kind of seeing that matters.** *Japón -* A film named for a country it never visits, never mentions, never explains. That is the first clue Reygadas gives us, and like most first instructions, it is the one viewers forget. The title is not a setting; it is a symbol, hiding in plain sight. It is the flag of a nation that has nothing to do with this canyon in Hidalgo, except that it names the thing the ca…
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