Silence

1.50
    Silence
    2016

    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)

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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