Carthusian order's silence speaks volumes in this movie

Winnipeg Free Press | June 4, 2007| | Copyright

By Alison Gillmor

THERE is almost no dialogue in this extraordinary, revelatory film.

That isn't to say it's silent. In fact, in watching this 169-minute examination of the men of the Grand Chartreuse monastery in the French alps (in French and Latin, with subtitles), you will become attuned to the smallest sounds - wind in treetops, water filling a bowl, the creak of ancient wood.

The Carthusian order offers the most ascetic monastic practice in the world. Virtually unchanged since its founding in 1084, by St Bruno, it combines the communal and the hermetic strains of monasticism. The men ...

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