3.5/5

The film, a meditation on love, duty and spirituality, is sometimes utterly engaging -- and at other times hugely self-conscious.

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07/11/08

B+

If the film is effective (as it was for me), we are happy to enjoy the silences, to meditate on the striking visual images, and to share in the thoughts of the characters.

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03/29/08

9/10

Reygadas doesn't make any particular effort to foreground that story for long stretches at a time, instead focusing on the rhythms of life.

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10/15/07

C-

The near-epitome of art-cinema pretentiousness.

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10/01/07

4/5

A deeply spiritual drama set in rural Mexico about a Mennonite farmer, adultery, and the grace of God.

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09/30/07

2/4

Reygadas, a wonky impressionistic filmmaker, prioritizes aesthetics above social inquiry throughout the film, presenting the lives of his reclusive Mennonite community as something out of the imagination of Grant Wood.

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09/26/07

N/A

Gorgeous on both a visual and a spiritual level.

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09/13/07

N/A

As suggested by Johan's halting of a pendulum, Silent Light may very well take place across several moments out of time.

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09/08/07

B+

Reygadas' third work is his most artisticaly audacious if least commercial film, a visually stunning portrait of an adulterous affair set in Mexico's isolated, deeply religious Mennonite community; helmer is in complete control from first to last frame

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05/29/07