Opening with St. Augustine is a wild choice, and it gets wilder from there. Immensely funny, internally consistent, and excellent pace. I’m not a laugh-out-loud movie watcher, but to be in a raucous room of 1 am hysteria was so fun. Worth the hour and a half nap to substitute for sleep.
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Into Great Silence 2005
“Anyone who does not give up everything cannot be my disciple.”
The perfect life is not a hollow command; those who are pure in heart—whose whole being long for nothing other than God—shall see him, we are promised.
This movie does not give a checklist of answers or steps. It solely explicates that such love exists, and exists in the humanity of chores, reading, sledding, and Great Silence.
A perfect film. A meditation. An invitation for your very heart to enter the monastery, to enter Into Great Silence.
“Lord Jesus, have mercy on us.”
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About Time 2013
With this time we are given, may we truly love.
A perfect movie, which ceaselessly reveals more and more the human condition and the wonder of life. Worthy of all contemplative attention. I have cried, and will cry again, because of this movie.
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Only Yesterday 1991
A beautiful witness to recollecting past hurts without bitterness, and remembering past actions with forgiveness. Love keeps no record of wrong. Such profound love takes a lifetime to cultivate, yet it ought to be our aspiration.
The art was so sweet—as always—and the slow shots of making dye and cultivating a field made me long for a pastoral life. Lovely to sit in for all the minutes we can get.
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