In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
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- 30 wins & 12 nominations total
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- TriviaMexico's official submission for the 80th Academy Awards, and the first film from that country that is not in Spanish. Under AMPAS's new rules for Best Foreign-Language Film, it is eligible for a nomination.
- GoofsThe English subtitles translate one line as "The man on the phone wants a plutonium exhaust." This would be expensive, not to mention environmentally hazardous! Presumably the line actually refers to platinum, not plutonium.
- SoundtracksLes Bonbons
Written and performed by Jacques Brel
Featured review
As a Mexican, I forget that this country is formed not only by cities'and country inhabitants. There is an almost infinite number of variables between those to macro worlds. A movie like this helps you remember how diverse and rich human race is, and that you are surrounded by so many different types of individuals, but it's just that you don't want to look carefully. This movie is really art cinema, and it was great for me watching this kind of production in a commercial location. From the moment of the initial sequence -that resembles the long scenes in Russian movies and theater- I knew that what I was about to witness was a display of delightful movie making. This one is definitely not for the average movie goer that wants to see explosions all over the place and easy to understand plots. No, definitely not. But If you are one of those, I strongly encourage you to see it, but do that with an open mind, knowing that it will be an extremely hard to digest film. And sometimes, you need to sacrifice something in order to enjoy the worthy things in life. And with the closing sequence, parallel to the opening one, I felt I paid to watch a real movie, and believe me, that does not happen often to me.
- dasevilengel
- Apr 27, 2008
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- Also known as
- Ánh Sáng Thầm Lặng
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- Budget
- €980,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $60,200
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,967
- Jan 11, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $877,577
- Runtime2 hours 16 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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