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Silent Light (2007) (Mexico) Dir. Carlos Reygadas. The end of the movie is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRjimgCKSI
From Wikipedia:
Silent Light (Plautdietsch: Stellet Lijcht; Spanish: Luz silenciosa) is a 2007 film written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas.
Silent Light begins with a long tracking shot of the sun rising over a beautiful plain. The protagonist, Johan, his wife, Esther and their children sit silently saying grace, after which each member of Johan's family departs from their home except for him. Once he is finally alone, he stops the clock on the wall beside him and breaks down crying. Next, Johan goes to work and discusses, with one of his colleagues, the fact that he is having an affair with a woman by the name of Marianne; he makes it clear to his colleague that his wife knows about the affair. Johan then leaves work to meet Marianne in a field, and they begin to kiss. In the next scene, Johan's children are bathing and playing along a riverbank while he and his wife watch. They call one of their children over to bathe her, and as they are doing so, Esther begins to cry; before the scene ends, the camera racks focus behind her to a purple flower, symbolically foreshadowing what is to come. Johan then tells his father about the affair, but when they step outside to discuss it, it is suddenly winter
Carlos Reygadas's films are known for their long sequences, slow rhythm, and use of nonprofessional actors. All the performers in Silent Light are Mennonites from communities in Mexico, Germany and Canada.
Review by Manohla Dargis:
The sun floods the wide sky in “Silent Light” like a beacon, spilling over the austere land and illuminating its pale, pale people as if from within. A fictional story about everyday rapture in an isolated Mennonite community in northern Mexico — and performed by a cast of mostly Mennonite nonprofessionals — the film was written, directed and somehow willed into unlikely existence by the extravagantly talented Carlos Reygadas, whose immersion in this exotic world feels so deep and true that it seems like an act of faith.....
It’s a gorgeous, innocent yet sensuous scene, a glimpse of the prelapsarian with a hint of the viper that Mr. Reygadas closes with a shot of a pink blossom, an image that begins as a blur of color and gently comes into focus. He holds on the image a few beats — much as he often does — not only because, I imagine, he wants us to appreciate its metaphoric resonance but also because he wants us to see its glory. There are a handful of ways to understand the meaning of “Silent Light,” words that I read as an allusion to love, but this is also very much a film about that ordinary light that sometimes still passes through a camera and creates something divine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRjimgCKSI
From Wikipedia:
Silent Light (Plautdietsch: Stellet Lijcht; Spanish: Luz silenciosa) is a 2007 film written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas.
Silent Light begins with a long tracking shot of the sun rising over a beautiful plain. The protagonist, Johan, his wife, Esther and their children sit silently saying grace, after which each member of Johan's family departs from their home except for him. Once he is finally alone, he stops the clock on the wall beside him and breaks down crying. Next, Johan goes to work and discusses, with one of his colleagues, the fact that he is having an affair with a woman by the name of Marianne; he makes it clear to his colleague that his wife knows about the affair. Johan then leaves work to meet Marianne in a field, and they begin to kiss. In the next scene, Johan's children are bathing and playing along a riverbank while he and his wife watch. They call one of their children over to bathe her, and as they are doing so, Esther begins to cry; before the scene ends, the camera racks focus behind her to a purple flower, symbolically foreshadowing what is to come. Johan then tells his father about the affair, but when they step outside to discuss it, it is suddenly winter
Carlos Reygadas's films are known for their long sequences, slow rhythm, and use of nonprofessional actors. All the performers in Silent Light are Mennonites from communities in Mexico, Germany and Canada.
Review by Manohla Dargis:
The sun floods the wide sky in “Silent Light” like a beacon, spilling over the austere land and illuminating its pale, pale people as if from within. A fictional story about everyday rapture in an isolated Mennonite community in northern Mexico — and performed by a cast of mostly Mennonite nonprofessionals — the film was written, directed and somehow willed into unlikely existence by the extravagantly talented Carlos Reygadas, whose immersion in this exotic world feels so deep and true that it seems like an act of faith.....
It’s a gorgeous, innocent yet sensuous scene, a glimpse of the prelapsarian with a hint of the viper that Mr. Reygadas closes with a shot of a pink blossom, an image that begins as a blur of color and gently comes into focus. He holds on the image a few beats — much as he often does — not only because, I imagine, he wants us to appreciate its metaphoric resonance but also because he wants us to see its glory. There are a handful of ways to understand the meaning of “Silent Light,” words that I read as an allusion to love, but this is also very much a film about that ordinary light that sometimes still passes through a camera and creates something divine.
