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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #10 Silent Light

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Silent Light

#10. Silent Light (Luz Silenciosa)

Director/Writer: Carlos Reygadas
Producers: Carlos Reygadas and Jaime Romandia (La Influencia)
Distributor: Tartan Films

The Gist: Mexico, Chihuaha state, community of Mennonites. Johan,
married to Esther, with seven sons from her, has been having a passionate love
affair with Marianne for 2 years. Deciding between two lives, and between two
women, is impossibile.

Fact: The lead actress is a non-actor that Reygadas meet randomly.

See It: The filmmaker behind Battle in Heaven has picked up much critical praise and won prizes in Cannes, the Golden Hugo in Chicago, a Fipresci Prize in Rio, and a Best Film award in Bergen.

Release Date/Status?: Tartan Films might try and put this in a couple of arthouse theaters.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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