Silent Light

Palisades Tartan | Release Date: January 7, 2009

7.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Ratings

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ryancarroll88Aug 26, 2010

Every scene could be counterposed as an impressionist art piece and the plot is meant to trigger your inner philosopher rather than your outer romantic. Basically it is a film that is meant to make you feel something - what the hell?

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WarriorJan 10, 2009

It's amazingly beautiful and it tests your patience; both things are par for the course with Reygadas, After that, you've either surrendered to his idiosyncratic sense of rhythm, or you're out of there.

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SibylPJan 20, 2009

Yes, the pace is slow, the resolution somewhat limited, but this is an unusual, beautiful film. The actors are not professional and what a relief from Hollywood emoting. Many shots are bold in their restraint, breaking convention. The Yes, the pace is slow, the resolution somewhat limited, but this is an unusual, beautiful film. The actors are not professional and what a relief from Hollywood emoting. Many shots are bold in their restraint, breaking convention. The language and look of the characters are a revelation. It takes us to a seemingly faraway time and place. And it was worth the price of admission for the wide shot of the cows coming in the barn. Risky, odd, inventive, this is a director's film. He worked magic with stop motion for dawn and dusk. Brilliant shots, memorable.… Expand

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jeremypJun 2, 2012

If you like to watch paint dry in slow motion, then this is for you. A 20 minute plot dragged out to over 2 hours. Basically the Director points the camera at someone/something then moves the camera in at a snails pace.

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JBBuFeb 22, 2013

This film is a beautiful, but trying slide show of European style art film mostly made up of wide angle symmetry (often with a lighted doorway window in the center) on a stationary camera on a tripod. The closest it gets to action is when theThis film is a beautiful, but trying slide show of European style art film mostly made up of wide angle symmetry (often with a lighted doorway window in the center) on a stationary camera on a tripod. The closest it gets to action is when the camera occasionally pans or slowly zooms. The subtitles are barely necessary since there is very little dialogue. And it works wonderfully. There is an intriguing reference to Gabriel García Márquez's and Lisandro Duque Naranjo's "Milagro En Roma" in the film.… Expand

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RobertoReisJan 21, 2012

The finest film to date of one of the most important emerging filmmakers. Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light is an experience rather than a movie. Very rewardable.

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BladeLover2049Aug 17, 2018

Silence without something to say. Gestures that say nothing, or very little. Tears that scream so loud, but words that say so little. Lives without movement, but light that illuminates the soul. This film finds what it does not look for. ItSilence without something to say. Gestures that say nothing, or very little. Tears that scream so loud, but words that say so little. Lives without movement, but light that illuminates the soul. This film finds what it does not look for. It is lost in simple cinephile winks, abstractions and in visual complacencies. It is not a reflection on the nature of the soul, it is simply a mirror to it ... but it only reflects and does not make us look.… Expand

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