Next Screening:
28th April 2008
28th April 2008
The Park Hotel, Diss
* * Film Starts 7.30pm * *
Members £3 Non-Members £4 Students £2 (under 21)
Cast: Carthusian Monks
The German documentary maker Philip Gröning waited for 13 years before the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps agreed to his making a film about their lives, laying down the conditions that there should be no artificial light, no music (other than their own Gregorian chants), no interviews, no commentary and no accompanying crew.
* * Film Starts 7.30pm * *
Members £3 Non-Members £4 Students £2 (under 21)
INTO GREAT SILENCE (PG)
Origin: France/Switzerland/Germany
Year: 2006
Running Time: 169 mins
Cast: Carthusian Monks
The German documentary maker Philip Gröning waited for 13 years before the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps agreed to his making a film about their lives, laying down the conditions that there should be no artificial light, no music (other than their own Gregorian chants), no interviews, no commentary and no accompanying crew.
The result is a meditation on lives given over to prayer and solitude – an experience of the spiritual existence, rather than an exploratory documentary.
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