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Film Info
2006
162 mins
Color
Germany
In minimal English subtitled French dialogue
35mm
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby SRD
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Reviews
“Eloquent. Both humble and exalted. You surrender to INTO GREAT SILENCE as you would to a piece of music. I hesitate, given the early date and the project’s modesty, to call INTO GREAT SILENCE one of the best films of the year. I prefer to think of it as the antidote to all of the others.”
- A.O.Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Engrossing, entrancing, enlivening…Through unrushed rhythms and a harmonious mise-en-scene, Mr. Gröning finds beauty in a mote of dust, a patch of newly tilled earth and the long white eyebrows hat hang over an aged blind monk’s eyes like a curtain. Grace, it seems, makes little noise.”
- Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“A transcendent, transporting experience....a film where nothing seems to happen but everything comes to pass.”
- Kenneth Turan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
“STUNNING...INTO GREAT SILENCE sharpens your senses...unexpected and exhilarating....rarely is time so intensified, or so pure.”
- Stuart Klawans, THE NATION
“EXHILARATING….A poetic essay on the slowed-down rhythms of life…its quiet pleasures carry the viewer along at a pace commensurate with the monks’ own unhurried sense of time.”
- Jay Weissberg, VARIETY
“FOUR STARS….a masterful object of contemplation…always with the promise of revelation and transcendence. Gröning’s film offers up some striking and unforgettable parallels between religious and artistic struggle.”
- Keith Uhlich, SLANT
“Groning’s approach gives the viewer a rare chance to really listen to what water sounds like when it drips from a tin bowl, or the watch what patterns raindrops make when they fall on a shallow puddle -- purely sensual, cinematic experiences. In such moments we sense the point of view of a patient, sensitive filmmaker.”
- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE
“Euphoric...the simplicity begins to seduce.”
- Michelle Orange, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“Extraordinary!”
- NEW YORK MAGAZINE
“Breathtaking!”
- Elise Soukup, NEWSWEEK
“Extraordinary! Graceful and elegant!”
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat,
SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE
“INTO GREAT SILENCE is pure cinema at its purest and most exalted. More than a documentary of monastic life...Gröning’s achievement reveals the beauty and power of this most hidden, yet unexpectedly human, world. It’s a rare perfection in a film.”
- Steven D. Greydanus, Film Critic,
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
“A view into a world where the present moment is all there is. As the growing numbers of people wanting to see INTO GREAT SILENCE attest to, there are rewards for taking the time to pay attention, to see and hear things precisely. There couldn’t be a better reason to go to the movies.”
- Carol Ann Raphael,
WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?
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