I first “watched” Carlos Reygadas’s third feature, Silent Light, as a kind of background canvas to a special birthday celebration (mine) upstate, last year. The themed feature that night was to be Woodstock, but by way of making sure the system was working, and keeping the projector primed, we popped the unwatched DVD of Silent Light into the computer… it just happened to be a current “at home” Netflix  DVD, and to be honest, I can’t remember exactly why I’d added it to my queue in the first place. During the first part of that beautiful August evening, I found myself drawn to the stunning (silent… we were playing music at the time) imagery on the screen. A month or so ago, something triggered a memory of this movie, and I watched it properly. What a pleasure, and subsequently, what a great MovieNight!

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