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has created a beautiful sequence that would not be out of place in the Louvre.
This striking opening also effortlessly transplants the audience from the travails of modern life into the state of Chihuahua in Mexico where a community of Mennonites resides. Reygadas. as ever. refuses to spoonfeed the audience: the only clue that the characters are
Silent Light further develops Reygadas‘ concern with how love affects man‘s desire and puts him at odds with society, though the director‘s third film is in fact closer in aesthetic tone to his 2002 debut Japon than 2005‘s kidnapping odyssey Battle In Heaven. Also included is his signature shot involving a remarkable sex scene between an older couple. But the big surprise of Silent Mennonites is in the fact that they speak Plautdietsch. Light comes from its stunning denouement when the while only the press notes confirm that the action takes spiritual forces at work come to the fore. Outstanding. place in Chihuahua. (Kaleem Aftab)
The sparse plot involves Johan (Cornelio Wall Fehr). a I - .- : : father of seven. who comes to the conclusion that local
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