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Johan is a hard working farmer in a Mexican Mennonite community with a loving wife and children. Tensions build when this deeply religious family man begins an affair with the unattached Marianne, a breaking of family vows that provides him with a moral torment and starts the family on the road to tragedy. The fourth film from Japón director Carlos Reygadas is a slowly paced but haunting work whose sometimes minimalist and poetic approach to storytelling rewards the initially required patience and becomes strangely compelling. A visually breathtaking film, thanks to the camerawork of Alexis Zabe, with the arresting opening and closing images attracting particular praise. |
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Silent Light |
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| director |
| Carlos Reygadas |
| starring |
| Elizabeth Fehr |
| Jacobo Klassen |
| Maria Pankratz |
| Miriam Toews |
| Cornelio Wall |
| Peter Wall |
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