SILENT LIGHT

(2007) dir. Carlos Reygadas; 136min.

FRIDAY, June 4th at 7 & 9:30pm

SATURDAY, June 5th at 7 & 9:30pm

SUNDAY, June 6th at 3pm

The sun floods the wide sky in “Silent Light” like a beacon, spilling over the austere land and illuminating its pale, pale people as if from within. A fictional story about everyday rapture in an isolated Mennonite community in northern Mexico — and performed by a cast of mostly Mennonite nonprofessionals — the film was written, directed and somehow willed into unlikely existence by the extravagantly talented Carlos Reygadas, whose immersion in this exotic world feels so deep and true that it seems like an act of faith. Mr. Reygadas’s faith may be more rooted in his own gifts than in God, but it’s the sheer intensity of this belief — which he confirms with every camera movement — that invests his film with such feeling. ~ Manohla Dargis, The New York Times