Into Great Silence
- Sunday, March 25 7:15 pm
Savoy Theater
SUNDAY 25 SOLD OUT!
As a novice filmmaker, Philip Groening asked the Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps for permission to make a film about them. Sixteen years later, they were ready, and Groening was invited, without crew and artificial lighting, to record their daily prayers, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. Groening’s film is a delicate chronicle of a year in and around the monastery, where gardening, cooking, barbering, tailoring and other monastic activities reveal the monks’ silent communication with God. Variety: “Exhilarating… Groening takes the viewer deep into this cloistered world.” Sponsored by Figrig Web Crafters. No rating, 162 minutes, in French and Latin with subtitles. (INTO GREAT SILENCE will continue at the Savoy Theater from Monday, March 26 through Thursday, March 29; tickets will be available at the GMFF Ticket Office). Film Website
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