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- Number of Discs: 2
- UPC/EAN: 795975109437
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107309737
- Studio: Zeitgeist Films Ltd.
- Release Date: October 23, 2007
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Entertainment Weekly, 03/16/2007, p.49, "The director, Philip Groning, orchestrates the monks' rituals into a gorgeous meandering trance..." -- Grade: B- Box Office, 04/01/2007, p.128, "[A] languid yet utterly captivating, documentary look inside a place of utter devotion." Total Film, 02/01/2007, p.38, 3 stars out of 5 -- "INTO GREAT SILENCE hypnotically shows how its self-sufficient characters peacefully co-exist alongside nature." Sight and Sound, 02/01/2007, p.61-62, "This is a film not about silence, but about the heightened perception that comes with a pure quality of attention."
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Theatrical Release: March 2, 2007
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INTO GREAT SILENCE fits neatly into the sub-category of films that need to be experienced rather than just watched. Over 162 minutes director Philip Groening films a group of monks who dwell in the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps. The monks have taken a vow of silence, and live life at such a gentile pace that it took them 13 years to respond to Groening's request to make a film about them. The subjects of Groening's film fill their days with slow and highly repetitive routines, so the director shoots at a suitably slow pace, highlighting simple tasks such as praying, gardening, cooking, and doing laundry. Groening lived with the monks for four months and worked under strict conditions dictated to him by the order; no voiceover, music, or interviews were to be included in the film, and Groening was to be the sole crew member on the shoot. There are a couple of moments when Groening breaks with his modus operandi. He interviews an elderly blind monk, the Gregorian Chants practiced by the order occasionally feature, and the monks stage a snowball fight on one of their weekly breaks from the monastery. But the film is mostly comprised of a long, lonely trip into silence, and will doubtless leave its audience members in a contemplative and restful state of mind once the journey comes to a peaceful end.
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