Synopsis
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
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Cast
- Andrew GarfieldRodrigues
- Adam DriverGarupe
- Liam NeesonFerreira
- Tadanobu AsanoInterpreter
- Ciarán HindsFather Valignano
- Issey OgataOld Samurai / Inoue
- Shinya TsukamotoMokichi
- Yoshi OidaIchizo
- Yosuke KubozukaKichijiro
- Kaoru EndôUnzen Samurai (Uneme)
- 100
Time Out
Scorsese has hit the rare heights of Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer, artists who found in religion a battleground that often left the strongest in tatters, compromised and ruined. It’s a movie desperately needed at a moment when bluster must yield to self-reflection. - 100
The Telegraph
It’s a film full of tight close-ups of hands accepting gifts that comfort, inspire and bring succour to their recipients’ souls. That’s how we should receive it. - 100
New York Daily News
Silence is a slowly unfolding, deeply thoughtful film about questioning yourself. About questioning authority. About taking stock of where you've failed as a human being, and wondering how you can make amends — to yourself, to others, and to God. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Silence, more successfully than not, artfully addresses the core issue of its maker's lifelong religious struggle. - 80
The Guardian
With ambition and reach, and often a real dramatic grandeur, Scorsese’s film has addressed the imperial crisis of Christian evangelists with stamina, seriousness and a gusto comparable to David Lean’s. - 80
Screen Daily
Uneven, sometimes repetitive but also powerfully moving and thought-provoking, Silence is an imperfect movie that’s very hard to shake. - 80
Empire
Less showy than The Last Temptation Of Christ, more gripping than Kundun, the third part of Scorsese’s unofficial ‘religious’ trilogy is beautifully made, staggeringly ambitious and utterly compelling. - 75
IndieWire
A slow-burn tale filled with beautiful imagery and understated performances, its elegance yields one of Scorsese’s most subtle efforts.