batalla en el cielo be one of those inert and enervate art movie that come along from time to time and have highbrow critic reach for the superlative . by use amateur actor it masquerade a naturalistic and but it be in fact as artificial a a piece of modern conceptual art . major spoiler ahead set in present day mexico city and what little story there be revolves around a chubby middle age chauffeur name marcos ( marcos hernandez ) and who together with his even chubby wife and seem to have kidnap a baby who have subsequently die . all this drama happen off camera and a do just about everything else that might be of interest and except for the sex . indeed and marcos have quite a lot of sex and both with his wife and ( separately ) with a much young woman name ana ( anapola mushkadiz ) and the daughter of his rich employer . marcos and who may or may not be guilt ridden about the infant death ( it anybody guess and since all the actor have clearly be direct to refrain from anything resemble emotional expression ) and tell ana about the kidnapping and she encourage him to turn himself in to the police . later on he stab ana to death and then join a religious pilgrimage and die on his knee in church . a have be well document and the sex in batalla en el cielo be very explicit indeed . director carlos reygadas seem to be garner praise for the mere fact that he have film overweight and not very attractive people naked and have sex . but really and so what . it be interpret a some kind of laudable corrective to the cosmetic eroticism that hollywood and the porn industry peddles . it isn not and of course and for the simple reason that the movie overall isn not remotely good enough to mediate the intended visceral impact of lengthy depiction of actual sex . in the context of the story the extended and graphic nature of these scene be simply as unwarranted a it would have be if the actor be beautiful and glamorous . admittedly the sexual imagery do provide momentary glimpse of the raw and vulnerable humanity of these people and and have it feature in a more emotionally rounded and professionally tell story it might have carry a much great resonance . a it be and just about everything that happen feel meaningless and remote and because reygadas evidently have no interest in supply his audience with any interpretive hook and and unsurprisingly none of the amateur actor be skilled enough to fully inhabit on screen the body that they have so boldly put on display .