Die große Stille (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Philip Gröning

Guionista:

Philip Gröning (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 noviembre 2005 (Alemania)

Género:

Documental

Frase comercial:

A unique, transcendent and transporting cinematic event

Plot:

An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France. |

Plot Keywords:

Monastery | Haircut | No Music Score | Ritual | Christian Theme

Premios:

5 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Expect art, not a documentary

También conocida como:

Into Great Silence (International: English title)
Le grand silence (France)
Dentro del gran silencio (Argentina) (festival title) [es]
El gran silencio (Mexico) [es]

Duración:

169 min | Canada:164 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

France | Switzerland | Alemania

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés | Latin

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | UK:U | Germany:o.Al. | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:Atp

Locaciones de Filmación:

Grande Chartreuse, Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, Isère, France

Compañía:

Arte

Citas:

Intertitle Card (repeated line): Anyone who does not give up all he has cannot be my disciple.

Expect art, not a documentary

If you begin watching this film expecting an explanatory documentary about monastic life in La Grande Chartreuse, you may soon become bored and fed up. If you begin watching this film expecting to be taken into the monastic way of life, you will soon find yourself there. The movie takes the pace of the slow, quiet atmosphere of the monastery. Long periods of silence broken by the occasional creak of floorboards or chanting or bells, and very little dialogue. It is like each shot is a photograph. A moving photograph.

It is not entirely what one expects, however. Keep an eye out for the odd object seemingly out of place: the highlighter, the keyboard, the laptop; the odd conversation on a monk's departure for Seoul, South Korea; the shot of monks sliding down a snowy bank on their bums.

I wanted more explanation - how the individuals chose this way of life; how they sustain their community; what contact they have with secular people. But it is not that kind of documentary. As long as you're prepared for that, it is a film worth watching.