{"id":18839,"date":"2012-02-10T00:52:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T08:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2012-02-10T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:25:12","slug":"another-silence-santiago-amigorena-2011-franceargentinacanadabrazil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=18839","title":{"rendered":"Another Silence (Santiago Amigorena, 2011): France\/Argentina\/Canada\/Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Charles Starr<\/a> Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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Aptly named, Another Silence seems to have silence in abundance. \u00a0It succeeds greatly though, through minimal dialogue, vast open landscapes, and little overt expression of emotion from the characters, to convey a great deal.<\/p>\n

Another Silence tells the story of a policewoman’s reaction to the murder of her husband and young son. \u00a0Choosing the path of vengeance, she travels from her wintery home in Toronto to Argentina in search of her families’ murderers. \u00a0Traveling with only a backpack and a stolen gun and giving no obstacle a second thought, be it the distance she must travel, the people she encounters or the means she must employ to track down the killers, this film portrays not only a woman seeking what she believes to be justice but also what her life becomes after such a horrible loss.<\/p>\n

The striking and pervasive quality of this film is its lack of outward expression or narrative to convey the great deal of heartache, anger, maliciousness, and loneliness. \u00a0It instead subtly presents these things through the main character’s near silent actions, and her sheer determination, which seems to be all that she has left inside of her. \u00a0She is uninterested and unmoved by the foreign land in which she finds herself. \u00a0She is immune to the kindness of strangers. \u00a0She seems to have forgotten about happiness, fun, love, and all things that keep a person uplifted. \u00a0She has closed herself off to all of life except for those things that will lead her to the murder(ers) she seeks. \u00a0One cannot help but to see this, to see this shell of \u00a0a person, who has given up on her friends, her career, her home, her own interests, and know without words or tear stained cheeks that she is in more pain than she knows how to handle. \u00a0The viewers are given the credit that they can see this woman’s choices, her blank face, and know that she has chosen to pursue these men so drastically and without concern for herself. She will not have to think of the agonizing torment that lays in wait inside of her. \u00a0The time she spends alone, the desert expanses that she travels by foot beautifully represent the distance that she has put between herself and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

A film portraying heartache and loss is by no means original. \u00a0Another Silence is such a film- but its means of portrayal are vey much its own. \u00a0By allowing the viewer to realize the subtext of the film on their own terms, instead of being hit over the head with it, they are much more connected with the film and the characters- it becomes a more unique experience rather than that of watching just another movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Charles Starr Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival. Aptly named, Another Silence seems to have silence in abundance. \u00a0It succeeds greatly though, through minimal dialogue, vast open landscapes, and little overt expression of emotion from the characters, to convey a great deal. Another Silence tells the story of a policewoman’s reaction to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}