Silent Light (Reygadas, 2007)
(On the heels of an earlier post, a spoiler-laden review follows…) The opening shot of Silent Light is one of those that will be talked about for a long time, earning a spot a special list out there among the critical canons that most often includes a sequence or two from 2001, the driving scene in Solaris, the first railway scene in Stalker, the balloon in Rublev, the beginning of Heart of Glass, the street scene in Werckmeister Harmonies, the rooftop in I am Cuba, the flying... Read More
Books and Culture Reviews Silent Light
Roy Anker has reviewed Reygadas’ Silent Light for Books and Culture. It features some nice descriptions of Reygadas’ overall effect: To see the world this way, as if through a pair of Vermeer-tinged eyeglasses, is, frankly, startling. Perhaps this is Reygadas’ foremost gift: his “eye,” his luminous apprehension of the physical world. Whether it be the stolid, intractable fleshliness of humanity in Battle in Heaven, or here, among the Mennonites in... Read More
In Praise of Bad Movies
We Filmwell writers are aficionados of the kind of films most people never hear about: foreign movies, realism, character-driven stories – the little, the obscure, the transcendent. Sure, we like our blockbusters, but sometimes it’s the little films that really sit in your soul. But that’s not what I’m thinking about today. My husband works in film and we love these moderately obscure movies, too. After all, we spent New Year’s Eve at the Che roadshow... Read More
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