
An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.... (Full plot summary below)
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An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.
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| NewsBlazePrairie MillerThe Silence Before Bach: Illuminates a complexity of ideas, including the passive reflection prior to creative conception and organic to musical formulation and the space between sounds, that fascinate the filmmaker, both musically and cinematically. |
| Slant MagazineKeith UhlichA 162-minute journey into a cloistered world of ritualistic repetition, always with the promise of revelation and transcendence. |
| Globe and MailStephen ColeThough there are dozens of images here that you might want as a computer-screen saver, Into Great Silence does not add up to a valuable or engrossing documentary. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirThis is a remarkable work of pure documentary cinema, and a mystical accomplishment on the order of Wagner's "Parsifal" or Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice." That's hardly anybody's thing these days -- it's not often mine. But the effort, in this case, is worth it. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA transcendent, transporting experience, a trance movie that casts a major league spell by going deeply into a monastic world that lives largely without words. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter V. AddiegoThe silence captured in this documentary may be the most eloquent you'll ever hear. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA film of great spiritual intensity and haunting minimalism that enlarges your concepts of movies and of life. Like the monks of the Carthusian order, it distills something intoxicating through a style that's pure and rigorous. |
| Jam! MoviesJim SlotekWhat seems to happen when you watch a movie in near total silence is that you become almost sensory-starved -- a meditative state by definition, I suppose. |
| Christianity TodayBrandon FibbsI have never before experienced a greater example of utterly transcendent filmmaking. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorGröning makes us fully feel the rhythms of their lives, but for the same reasons that most of us couldn't or wouldn't last in such a stripped-down environment, the movie, at just shy of three hours, starts to feel oppressive after two. |