Website review: Into Great Silence
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- PiTrinam rated 12 months ago
- "Into Great Silence" 2007, Germany 2 hours, 44 minutes director: Philip Groning "In 1984. Philip Groning, asked the monks if he couldfilm them and received a green light all of sixteen years later. ... To make a movie about a monastery, they might have been saying (as many a Zen master would), you have to become a monastery." Pico Iyer July 2007 The Annual All Buddhist Teaching Issue, Shambhala Sun, Buddhism Culture Meditation Life
pauljc rated 16 months ago- "Into Great Silence" Website for the documentary. Silence. Repetition. Rhythm. The film is an austere, next to silent meditation on monastic life in a very pure form. No music except the chants in the monastery, no interviews, no commentaries, no extra material.
- iflyme rated 16 months ago
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I can't wait to see this movie.
- xjingx rated 17 months ago
- Into Great Silence -- a story with every frame imdb website Forgive my laziness, the lack of a complete personal review is by no means an indication of my lack of enthusiasm for the movie! Being a near-3-hour movie with no additional music scores, no interviews or voice-over, the film's a trail for viewers. The film is set in the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse near Grenoblethis in the French Alps, the director Philip Gröning waited for over 10 years before the permission for filming finally came from the monks. He spent months living the rituals and the result's not only some of the most striking cinematography but also an absorbing experience into a whole different world. I'm not a Christian. In fact, watching this film has hardly been a religious experience. Instead it was the silence that allowed me to open up my senses and engage in the daily monastic life the director's so eager to share with the rest of the world.
- SolitarySoul rated 26 months ago
- The film 'Into Great Silence' is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks high in a remote corner of the French Alps.
