Silent Light (2007)

Original title

Luz silenciosa

Directed by

Carlos Reygadas

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, Netherlands, France, Mexico

Runtime

2h 25m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 125 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married Mennonite man in a conservative Mexican colony falls in love with another woman. His forbidden feelings threaten his place in the community and his family.

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What happens

Silent Light (Plautdietsch: Stellet Licht) is a 2007 film written and directed by Carlos Reygadas. Filmed in a Mennonite colony close to Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua State, Northern Mexico, Silent Light tells the story of a Mennonite married man who falls in love with another woman, threatening his place in the conservative community. The dialogue is in Plautdietsch, the Low German dialect of the Mennonites. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards, but it did not make the shortlist. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 24th Independent Spirit Awards. It gained nine nominations, including all major categories, in the Ariel Awards, the Mexican national awards. Martin Scorsese described the work as "A surprising picture and a very moving one as well", while Barry Jenkins in 2019 named it as the best film of the 21st century. It was awarded the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, the film was named the twenty-third "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" by The New York Times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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