Silence (2016, Mex/Taiwan/USA, Dir. Martin Scorsese, 161 mins, 15) - part subtitled

Director: Martin Scorsese ● Starring: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson. 

In 17th century Japan, Christians are hunted down and persecuted unless they renounce their faith. Despite this grave danger, two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries (Driver and Garfield) travel to Japan to search for their missing colleague (Neeson).

Depicting the harrowing trials that they witness and experience, “Silence” raises questions of faith, doubt and morality with “passionate ferocity” (Financial Times).  

 It is a film that has been a long time in the making, an interview with the director in The New York Times indicating that Scorsese first read Shusake Endo’s (1966) novel in 1989, at a time when his “The Last Temptation of Christ” had been vilified by some reviewers. 

After over 25 years of wondering ‘how’ and overcoming studio and financial backer reluctance, here is the result. (In contrast, it only took Otto Preminger 2 years to persuade the movie industry that the Broadway musical “Carmen Jones” could translate to the big screen…)

With two showings at 2.30pm and 7.00pm.-Please note the early 7.00pm start due to the length of the film. 

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