Winter Silence

  

Mythology and Catholic and everyday rituals are the food, the reason for being, and the refuge of a widow and her four daughters in the eternally snowed Swiss mountains. In this world where the absence of the father turns him omnipresent, where there’s almost no dialogue and things seem to go quite smoothly, silence announces tragedies, which come from outside of that inner shield. Sonja Wyss turns her first feature into an essay on light and its relation with space, on the tension between th [...]

Duration

70 min

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