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Film Description
Silent Light is the latest work from Carlos Reygadas, the controversial director of the award-winning Battle in Heaven and Japon.
Johan is the head of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico. But when he falls in love with another woman, his actions create conflict in an otherwise serene and tranquil existence. An enlightening and engaging exploration of moral and spiritual crises, Silent Light's poetic tone evokes Dreyer, Bergman and even Kubrick as it weaves its way to one of cinema's most exquisite finales. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes.
Film Information
| Director | Carlos Reygadas | ||||
| Starring | Elizabeth Fehr, Jacobo Klassen, Maria Pankratz
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | Germany | Language | German | Year | 2007 |
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Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 136 mins | Label | TARTN | ||
| Cat No | TVD3807 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Subtitles | English | ||||||
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Review by Doug Cummings on 4th March 2008
Carlos Reygadas' latest film opens with what will almost certainly be the most audacious and beautiful opening shot you'll see all year: a limitless Milky Way that rotates and shifts behind silhouetted trees and slowly fades from sight at the burning crack of dawn, at once evoking the realism, the hidden world and the mysterious Cosmos that will pervade the rest of the film. And it doesn't let up, offering one widescreen vista after another reaching into infinity with an almost electrifying physical clarity as it tells its quiet story of a marital affair within a Mennonite community in Mexico. Even more impressively, its visual clarity is matched by the emotional clarity of its characters, all of whom come across as struggling, intelligent adults who hold no secrets; there are no heroes or villains here.
The drama builds to a shocking conclusion that immediately recalls Carl Theodore Dreyer's masterpiece of hushed spiritual realism, Ordet (1955). But Reygadas' vision is less philosophically structured than Dreyer's; his is a more existential and inexplicable miracle that resonates like an echo of a symmetry buried deep within the universe itself.
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