The Bijou closes its summer calendar this week with INTO GREAT SILENCE, opening tonight and playing through July 26. We've had a number of requests for this film and we're happy to offer it... a lovely, poetic and elemental film, INTO GREAT SILENCE offers the first-ever look inside the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps... it's the antithesis to the summer action flick (which we love too), so come clean your palette at the Bijou!

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SCREENING July 20-26
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INTO GREAT SILENCE
Directed by Philip GröningGermany, 2006, 162 min | In French with
English subtitles

Nestled deep in the postcard-perfect French Alps, the Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -- filming their daily prayers, tasks, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. This transcendent, closely observed film seeks to embody a monastery, rather than simply depict one -- it has no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. What remains is stunningly elemental: time, space and light. One of the most mesmerizing and poetic chronicles of spirituality ever created, INTO GREAT SILENCE dissolves the border between screen and audience with a total immersion into the hush of monastic life.

"EXHILARATING! A poetic essay on the slowed-down rhythms of life... its quiet pleasures carry the viewer along at a pace commensurate with the monks' own unhurried sense of time." - Variety

"STUNNING... INTO GREAT SILENCE sharpens your senses... rarely is time so intensified, or so pure." - The Nation

SHOWTIMES
Friday: 7:30
Saturday: 5:00 and 8:00
Sunday: 3:00 and 6:00
Monday-Thursday: 7:30

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COMING SOON
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The Bijou Theater will be closed July 27 - September 6. The fall schedule begins Friday, September 7. Watch our website in August for the line-up... we've got lots more great film coming up!

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