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Stellet Licht (Silent Light) Series: The 45th New York Film Festival [Sep 28 - Oct 14 2007] Director: Carlos Reygadas, Country: Mexico/France/The Netherlands, Release: 2007, Runtime: 127 Never predictable but always audacious, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas has made the world’s first talking picture in the medieval German dialect called Plautdietsch. Silent Light is set in Northern Mexico’s ascetic, self-contained Mennonite community and cast almost entirely with Mennonite non-actors. Building in emotional intensity, this elemental tale of love and betrayal is at once an ethnographic exploration and an homage to Dreyer’s Ordet. Like the Danish master, Reygadas makes spirituality seem material, not least in the extraordinary widescreen landscape shots that bracket the action. With his third feature, the director has secured a place in the forefront of contemporary cinema.

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