‘Silent Light’ looks so beautiful.. it makes me cry man tears
As a film fan I think i’m pretty easy to please. If you throw a couple of key ingredients into the mix you’re almost certain to please me. One thing you can guarantee is if you turn on the Terrence Malick visuals (roaming landscapes.. filmed mostly at ‘the magic hour’ with people starring into the middle distance) and dreamy music you’re 90% there. I didn’t like Carlos Reygadas last film ‘Battle in Heaven’, but I did like a film he made called ‘Japón’ a kind of sparse (again very Malick) story of depression and love.
Reygadas’s new film ‘ Silent Light’ is playing at this year’s London Film Festival, so hopefully i’ll be able to report in when I catch a screening. The film has already garnered a lot of praise from Venice and Cannes so hopefully i’ll enjoy it more than ‘Battle in Heaven’.
I spied the trailer over at the excellent Spout blog and though i’d repost it here… beautiful stuff…
Carlos Reygadas’ latest follows the plight of Johan, a husband and father living in the Menonite community out the outskirts of Chihuahua, Mexico who breaks the rules by falling in love with another woman.
at the LFF
Posted in 
News | 
|
Share This
This entry was posted
on Friday, October 12th, 2007 at 8:31 am and is filed under News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
[…] ‘Silent Light‘ is a new film from mexican director Carlos Reygadas, about the Mennonites near Chihuahua, Mex. It looks to be a do-not-miss film full of Terence Malick influenced flowing, golden hour landscape shots. official site | more info on Mennonites in Mexico. […]
October 12th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Thanks for the link. Let us know what you think if you get a chance to see it!