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Beyond Silence (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 10

Fresh: 8

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: A critically acclaimed story about a young girl, with deaf parents, who receives a clarinet from her aunt and is immediately consumed by it. The tension that builds between her parents, who are... A critically acclaimed story about a young girl, with deaf parents, who receives a clarinet from her aunt and is immediately consumed by it. The tension that builds between her parents, who are unable to understand her passion, and Lara threatens to break their family apart. Inspiring and moving. [More]

Starring: Sylvie Testud, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit, Sibylle Canonica

Starring: Sylvie Testud, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit, Sibylle Canonica, Matthias Habich, Hansa Czypionka, Tatjana Trieb

Director: Caroline Link

Director: Caroline Link
Screenwriter: Caroline Link, Beth Serlin
Producer: Thomas Wobke, Jakob Claussen, Luggi Waldleitner
Composer: Niki Reiser

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  • Beyond Silence
  • Acclaimed by critics and audiences everywhere, BEYOND SILENCE is the powerful Academy Award(R)-nominated story of a young woman's battle for independence and her deaf parents' struggle to understand her gift for music. Given a clarinet by her free-spirited aunt, Lara is immediately consumed by a new passion her parents cannot begin to fully comprehend. Determined to follow her dreams, Lara's ongoing pursuit of music creates an ever-widening rift that eventually threatens to tear apart her once close-knit family. An inspirational and highly entertaining motion picture offering from Miramax Home Entertainment -- you'll be riveted as this family must somehow learn to reach beyond differences, expectations ... and beyond silence ... to bring their two worlds together once again!
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    Harvey S. Karten
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    Word of mouth might generate some excitement about the film's many poetic, sensuous and sincere qualities.

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    Doris Toumarkine
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    04/09/05
    Robin Clifford
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    The movie's one genuine tragedy is so obviously announced and reannouced that you get tired waiting for it to happen.

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    Nick Kimberley
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    Tutors us in the art of emotional literacy.

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    Beyond Silence' is one of those films that helps us escape our box of time and space and understand what it might be like to live in someone else's.

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