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Silent Light (DVD, 2008)

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Director ‏ : ‎ Carlos Reygadas. Silent Light is the latest breathtaking work from Carlos Reygadas, the controversial and prestigious director of the award-winning Battle in Heaven and Japón. Original Genuine UK Release.

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Johan is in the midst of a major spiritual crisis. A devoted father, and a husband to Esther, Johan has found himself caught up in an affair with a waitress named Marianne. But his connection with Marianne isn't just a physical one; he fears that he's fallen in love with her. The honest and tortured Johan confesses to Esther, spurring a series of cataclysmic events that will test his faith once and for all.

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EAN5023965380722

eBay Product ID (ePID)64117030

Product Key Features

ActorMaria Pankratz, Miriam Toews, Cornelio Wall

Film/TV TitleSilent Light

DirectorCarlos Reygadas

LanguageGerman

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time136 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2008

FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles, Trailer

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureMexico

ReviewsThe Guardian - Overwhelmingly powerful, Sight And Sound - Rivetingly beautiful, Little White Lies - One of the finest films of the year

Additional InformationWith SILENT LIGHT, Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas (JAPON, BATTLE IN HEAVEN) delivers an extraordinary, transcendent meditation on love and religion. To capture the innocence necessary to tell his tale, Reygadas ventured to a Mennonite community in northern Mexico, where the inhabitants live like relics from another era. Rather than falsifying his world, Reygadas cast the film with actual Mennonites who speak the German dialect Plattdeutsch, which gives the film an even greater authority--and further establishes a truly original tone. The story concerns Johan (Cornelio Wall Fehr), who is in the midst of a major spiritual crisis. A devoted father, and a husband to Esther (Miriam Toews), Johan has found himself caught up in an affair with a waitress named Marianne (Maria Pankratz). But his connection with Marianne isn't just a physical one; he fears that he's fallen in love with her. The honest and tortured Johan confesses to Esther, spurring a series of cataclysmic events that will test his faith once and for all. From the luminous opening shot--which is without question one of the most stunning opening shots ever committed to celluloid--it becomes clear that this is a much different film than Reygadas's last, the graphic and blunt BATTLE IN HEAVEN. While it appears that Reygadas was deeply influenced by Carl Theodor DreyerÆs ORDET, as well as the works of Terrence Malick, SILENT LIGHT is not merely a carbon copy of those films. It is the work of a visionary filmmaker who is challenging himself and trying to address genuinely deep human issues. Beautiful and profound, SILENT LIGHT is cinema at its most breathtaking.

ScreenwriterCarlos Reygadas

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\DTS Surround Sound 5.1

Movie/TV TitleSilent Light

Consumer AdviceContains moderate sex