Silent Light
Silent Light
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From writer-director Carlos Reygadas, the commanding Mexican talent behind Battle in Heaven, comes this subtle melodrama about infidelity and faith, set in a real Mennonite community outside Chihuahua, Mexico. Jonah and Esther are happily married farmers with a fleet of children, despite Jonas' admission of an on-going affair with his truer love, Marianne. As Jonah's religious convictions do battle with his earthly lust, Silent Light offers up no easy answers, but instead profound meanings. Reygadas' widescreen imagery, visual style, and pacing have earned the filmmaker comparisons to Dreyer and Malick, and the influence is obvious from the opening scene--a six-minute shot of a sunrise. A Jury Prize-winner at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In Plautdietsch with English subtitles. Carlos Reygadas---Mexico/France/Netherlands---2007---136 mins.

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  | JohnH#1

Dreyer South of the Border. I just sensed that I had seen this story on film before. I had: Dreyer's "Ordet". Just as slow and intense as the original. Something else. When I lived in Winnipeg some Mennonites from Mexico who wanted out of their dysfunctional colonies were smuggled into Manitoba and hidden in Mennonite towns and farms. Some were afflicted with communicalbe diseases, which led to a cat and mouse drama involving the illegal immigrants, their protectors and federal and provincial authorities who wanted to flush them out. If that hadn't happened I wouldn't have known that Mennonites from Manitoba had moved to Chihuahua 40 years before. (Ironoically, they were trying to escape dysfundtional colonies in Canada.) "Silent light" paints the colonies in a favorable light and gives insight into a world that few outside the Mennonite community know anything about.

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