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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Countries
France Mexico Netherlands
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Year
2007
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Type
Film
Alternative titles
- SILENT LIGHT Alternative
- LUZ SILENCIOSA Alternative
Introduction
“I was amazed by Silent Light... most of all by Carlos Reygadas’s extraordinarily rich sense of cinema, evident in every frame. A surprising picture, and a very moving one as well.”
Martin Scorsese, 2008
Carlos Reygadas’s third film, an austere story of love and faith, is both set among the Mennonites of northern Mexico and performed by many of them.
Johan (Cornelio Wall Fehr), a married farmer and father of six, has been having an affair with Marianne (Maria Pankratz) with the tacit knowledge of his wife Esther (Miriam Toews). This precipitates a crisis of faith with mortal and spiritual ramifications, documented in watchful, painstaking takes.
Following the lead of masters such as Bresson and Dreyer, Reygadas draws considerable power from the plainness of his inexperienced cast. Their uncoached grace is as affecting in its own way as the long opening and closing shots depicting respectively the dawn and dusk as daily miracles.
Silent Light has been compared to Carl Dreyer’s Ordet (1954), also set in an austere religious community. Reygadas first attracted acclaim with his debut Japón (2001).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Johan
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Esther
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Marianne
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Johan's father
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Johan's mother
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Zacarías
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Sara
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Alfredo
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Daniel
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Autghe
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Jackob
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Anita
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Cornelio
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Cornelio
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mechanic in workshop
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mechanic in workshop
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ice cream buyer
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ice cream buyer's wife
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ice cream buyer 2
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ice cream buyer 2's wife
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ice cream buyer 2's daughter
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ice cream buyer 2's daughter
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ice cream buyer 2's daughter
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waitress with ice cream
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Bobby
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trucker 1
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trucker 2
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nurse at reception
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nurse with doctor
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doctor
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preacher
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[preacher's] wife
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Uncle Cornelio
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Johan's sister
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Esther's mother
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Assistant Director
Production:
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International Sales
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Produced by
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Produced by
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Co-producer (ARTE France Cinema)
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Co-producer (ARTE France Cinema)
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Co-producer (Motel Films)
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Co-producer (Motel Films)
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Co-producer (Bac Films)
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Co-producer (Estudios Churubusco Azteca)
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Co-producer (Foprocine/Imcine)
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Co-producer (World Cinema Fund)
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Co-producer (World Cinema Fund)
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Co-producer (The Match Factory)
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Co-producer (The Match Factory)
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Co-producer (Ticoman)
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Associate Producer
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Production Manager
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Production Co-ordinator
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Holland Co-ordinator [Motel Films]
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Production Accountant
Writing:
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Written by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Steadicam Operator
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Assistant Camera
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Gaffer
Special Effects:
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Digital Effects
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Digital Effects
Editing:
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Design:
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Art Director
Film processing:
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Laboratory
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Negative Cutters
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Prints/Colour Timers
Sound:
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Sound Supervisor
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Sound Supervisor
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Sound Recordist
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Sound Recordist (2nd)
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Sound Re-recording
Consultant:
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German Translations
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