“Into Great Silence”

It will do your soul great good to go and see this movie. The filmmaker waited sixteen years to be allowed into the Carthusian monastery of la Grande Chartreuse to film the lives of the monks. The result was 162 nearly silent minutes of footage, all filmed without a crew or artificial lighting. There’s no soundtrack and no narration, and only one short interview, from which the interviewer’s voice has been deleted so as not to spoil the Carthusian-ness. You might leave the theater with a better understanding of monastic life, and I’ll bet you’ll go through your whole next day a lot more slowly and quietly.