Storyline
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Directors
Cast
Ciarán Hinds, Liam Neeson, Ryo Kase, Shun Sugata, Tetsu Watanabe, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Andrew Garfield, Munetaka Aoki, Shinya Tsukamoto, SABU, Yoshi Oida, Shi Liang, Hairi Katagiri, Issei Ogata, Yosuke Kubozuka, Nana Komatsu, Béla Baptiste, Michié, Katsuo Nakamura, Motokatsu Suzuki, Yasushi Takada, Ten Miyazawa, Kaoru Endô, Diego Calderón, Miho Harita, Hiroko Isayama, Yutaka Mishima, Yoriko Dôguchi, Kansai Eto, Hako Ohshima, Hideki Nishioka, Nobuaki Fukuda, Yoshihiro Takayama, Asuka Kurosawa
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Reviews
100
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
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
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
Silence, more successfully than not, artfully addresses the core issue of its maker's lifelong religious struggle.
80
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.
