Synopsis

In a deep valley of the Alps, 1,300 meters above sea level, there is a world of quietness that nobody could not easily look at. There, some people create the space for eternity and their own time, as the seasons roll by. A journey into the silence, portraying the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse for the first time, but it will be the last.

Director

• Philip GRÖNING
  

  L’amout, L’argrent, L’amour (2000)
  Victims. Witnesses (1993)
  The Terrorists! (1992)
  Summer (1986)
  The Last Picture Taken (1983)

Review

I’d like to recommend Into Great Silence, which is a documentary about the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery 1,300 meters above the sea level high in the French Alps. The monastery is where the monks spend their entire lifetime in private spaces. They seek three types of freedom. In order to get freedom, the monks expel themselves from the boundaries of the space in which they live and spend the rest of their lives outside the boundaries. It’s a highly desolate and lonely experience. The film is almost entirely without lines and so could come across as boring. However, lines spoken by their souls are prevalent from start to finish. I hope you hear that sound.

Credits

• PRODUCER, CINEMATOGRAPY, EDITOR, SOUND  Philip GRÖNING

JINJIN Pictures

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