Into Great Silence
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Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings
- Summary: This documentary about an ascetic monastery is one of the most mesmerizing and poetic chronicles of spirituality ever created. More meditation than documentary, it's a rare, transformative theatrical experience for all. (Zeitgeist Films)
- Director: Philip Gröning
- Genre(s): Documentary
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100The silence captured in this documentary -- a meditative look at life in the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps -- may be the most eloquent you'll ever hear.
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80A transcendent, transporting experience, a trance movie that casts a major league spell by going deeply into a monastic world that lives largely without words.
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80This is a remarkable work of pure documentary cinema, and a mystical accomplishment on the order of Wagner's "Parsifal" or Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice." That's hardly anybody's thing these days -- it's not often mine. But the effort, in this case, is worth it.
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Try as I might, I could not love it, because as a piece of cinema, Into Great Silence would try the patience of a saint.
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Leiris10One of the great film-going experiences of my life. Seeing this in a large audience was remarkable
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PatrickF.9
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DavidLC8
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