At once fascinating and predictable, viewing this remarkable film will touch everyone who see’s it. This latest episode, intercut as it is with previous one’s give a unique insight into everyone’s dreams, ambitions successes and failures. Director, Michael Apted realizing he was onto a unique social and filmic opportunity, chose to extend the idea well beyond its original time span, and has returned every 7 years hence to the same people to see how they are getting on in their lives. The purpose of which, was to track the progress of a cross section of British youngsters that cut across class and social lines to see how their lives would progress, and what role class and education had in how their lives would turn out. This lat est installment in what must be the longest film experiment/documentary ever, is just as riveting as the first one, started 42 years ago as a one off BBC documentary.

The editing just about perfect lingering on shots for just the right amount of time, intercutting the interior scenes with the glorious alpine exteriors.Īt 2 Hours and 40 minutes it is too long, director Phillip Groning, having made his point after 2 hours, but those first 2 hours won’t be ones that you will forget soon. The photography is stunning, all shot with available light, and without any added soundtrack. Their daily routines and prayers and all recorded with a great deal of reverence. Shot over a period of one year, this film follows, in detail the lives of the monks in this renowned abbey. This mesmerizing documentary about life in the Chartreuse Monastery in the French Alps, is at once hypnotic, meditative and serene. If any need of proof that silence is golden, then here it is. Ardinale, Anita Ekberg, Donald Sutherland, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Lina Wertmuller, Paul Mazursky, Ettore Scola, Giuseppe Tornatore No one has a bad word to say about him and if you have seen any of his films you can see why.

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