Silent Light

Carlos Reygadas's latest film is a mesmerising and deeply moving tale of love and betrayal played out against the pastoral backdrop of the North-Mexican Mennonite community.

Johan is a married man who against the laws of his faith, falls in love with another woman. He thus faces an internal dilemma, whether to betray his wife, the woman he once loved, and disrupt the apparent stability of the community or sacrifice his true love and future happiness. Stunningly beautiful and sublimely shot entirely on location, Silent Light opens with what is arguably the single most remarkable shot of the year; dawn breaking over the rural landscape.

Reygadas's control of image and sound reconfirm his position as a singular filmmaking talent and as one of contemporary cinema's most distinctive auteurs.