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By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 02 Mar 2007

The overwhelming silence is broken mainly by chanting and the ringing of the monastery bells. Call it life in the slow, slow, slow lane…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 01 Mar 2007

The movie captures the feeling of silence, of timelessness, of contemplation, of spiritual discipline, of communion with God and the rejection…

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By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 01 Mar 2007

It's not hard to appreciate the film's gentle pace, mesmerizing imagery and subtle but rich panoply of sounds, as well as its insights about…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 01 Mar 2007

This is a remarkable work of pure documentary cinema, and a mystical accomplishment on the order of Wagner's Parsifal or Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice…

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By Rob Mackie (6) for Guardian (4,584) on 01 Mar 2007

There are definitely moments of poetry and sweetness, and it is a notable achievement, years in the making…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide (1,527) on 28 Feb 2007

Groning's approach gives the viewer a rare chance to really listen to what water sounds like when it drips from a tin bowl, or the watch what…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 28 Feb 2007

I hesitate, given the early date and the project's modesty, to call Into Great Silence one of the best films of the year…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Feb 2007

Natural light is used to euphoric effect, inevitably summoning the old masters, and Gröning's frames are balanced and symmetrical, in Renaissance-ready…

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By Steven D. Greydanus (674) for Decent Films Guide (519) on 16 Feb 2007

Pure cinema at its purest and most exalted … a transcendent meditation on the human pursuit of meaning, on man as a religious and social…

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By Ted Murphy (205) for Murphy's Movie Reviews (147) on 11 Jan 2007

Simply put, the film goes on much too long. There's no real shaping of the story, no real structure to the documentary…

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By Trevor Johnston (624) for Time Out (7,510) on 30 Dec 2006

More than any film outside Bresson, this non-judgemental document allows us to feel the spirituality of the ecstatic privations guiding their…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 06 Nov 2006

A sanctuary of silence, contemplation, respect and inquiry into a quickly vanishing tradition that helped build the world we live in…

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By Stephen Cole (251) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 26 Oct 2006

Though there are dozens of images here that you might want as a computer-screen saver, Into Great Silence does not add up to a valuable or…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 26 Oct 2006

What seems to happen when you watch a movie in near total silence is that you become almost sensory-starved -- a meditative state by definition,…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Mar 2006

A 162-minute journey into a cloistered world of ritualistic repetition, always with the promise of revelation and transcendence…

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