{"id":1452,"date":"2007-11-07T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/into-great-silence-dvd-pick-of.html"},"modified":"2007-11-07T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T14:42:40","slug":"into-great-silence-dvd-pick-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/into-great-silence-dvd-pick-of.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInto Great Silence\u201d: DVD Pick Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modern documentaries usually rely on politics or social issues for cinematic inspiration, which is why \u201cInto Great Silence\u201d is such a surprising accomplishment. The movie has little dialogue and no significant action \u2013 unless you consider singing Gregorian chants significant action. \u201cInto Great Silence\u201d is the result of filmmaker Philip Groning\u2019s six-month stay with a group of monks in a remote monastery in the French Alps. He turned it into one of the most spiritually challenging films I can think of in recent years and that is why \u201cInto Great Silence\u201d <\/a>is my DVD pick for this week.
\nFellow blogger Donna wrote up a nice review <\/a>of the movie for Idol Chatter earlier this year, and I agree with her that it will take patience, concentration, and a little discipline to sit for most people to sit through the almost three hours of the footage in which the audience is given rare access to the religious practices of this particular sect of monks. Without the usual interview or archival footage most documentaries depend on to tell a story, \u201cInto Great Silence\u201d relies instead on attention to miniscule details as it traces a deeply reflective, minimalist lifestyle that is completely foreign to many of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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