Silent Light
Carlos Reygadas’s intractable, luminous film deals in punishing obscurity, uncommonly beautiful images and a kind of tight-lipped mysticism that jibes with the story’s German-speaking Mennonites who have cloistered themselves in Chihuahua, Mexico. The old folks bucked and snorted at the deliberate, lingering pace and the easily pretentious conversations referring to God and “the enemy” (the [...]