"Reel to Real" Movie Nights

This film series is now ended. Here's a post about the movie nights from last summer:

Join us for our last summer movie night viewing. Popcorn provided. Come along and bring a friend!

~ Into Great Silence (2005).

A film by German documentarist Philip Groening about the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps near Grenoble. Groening waited patiently for 16 years before the monks invited him to make a film about their lives, laying down the conditions that there should be no artificial light, no music (other than their own Gregorian chants), no interviews, no commentary and no accompanying crew. The result is this 164-minute film, a meditation on lives given over to poverty, prayer and solitude. It's an experience from within a repetitive, spiritual existence, rather than an explanatory, exploratory documentary. Groening lived in a cell of his own for a total of four months, covering all seasons, communicating with the monks through letters.

It's a remarkable film, which itself reflects the quality of listening in Silence to God's whisper and the movement of the Spirit, to which the monks devoted their entire lives.

Our films in this series include:

July 8 Of Gods and Men (2010)

July 15 The Island (2006)

July 22 A Hidden Life (2019)

July 29 The Children of Men (2006)

August 5 At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

August 12 NO FILM

August 19 Gran Torino (2008)

August 26 Into Great Silence (2005)