I feel bad for the poor souls who saw "Silent Light" without knowing anything about it first and came away hating it. They were probably expecting a movie that was, well, normal. You know, with a plot and stuff. A movie where things happen.

"Silent Light" is not that kind of movie. It is exceptionally slow and deliberate, with long, unbroken takes that often contain very little action at all. A man drives his truck away from his farmhouse and down a long dirt road to the highway -- and we don't cut away to another scene until the truck is a speck in the distance. Thirty seconds of watching a truck drive away, where a more conventional movie would have cut the shot after three or four seconds.

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Grade: B+

Not rated, probably PG-13 for a brief scene with some moderate sexuality

2 hrs., 7 min.; in the German dialect of Plautdietsch with subtitles