Land of Silence and Darkness

Marco Della Motta

Quite possibly Herzog's most affecting documentary, shot with a curious but compassionate eye.

KingBeard

Extraordinary. This was an incredibly emotional experience for me. So many moments of joy and sweetness and sadness. That first flight. The chimpanzee. The man with the tree.

klofter

This is Herzog at his least manipulative as a documentary filmmaker and as a result maybe his most affecting work. What starts out as the portrait of one woman overcoming incredible odds becomes more and more a parable on the human longing for connection and affection. The last scene is heart breaking and upsetting but also beautiful in a way. The same goes for the movie as a whole.

matthewlong1985

Possibly Herzog's best. I think you understand what that means.

Mingle

Please let me relive this film over and over.

Andhika Eka Buana

A film that should be put in every home so that we could be thankful for all the things that God has given us.Period. This one gonna played at least once a month in my future family home theatre.

José Neves

DCP. Arguably, Herzog looks for the signs of what is set in the title: silence, in a film where so much is spoken so that could be translated into one language of silence; and darkness, in a movie where we look so much at who does not look at us and not see us and so much senses around to find a vision. The shown print, with much less matter and body than pellicle, is in deep contradiction with this film's subject.

Duncan Gray

Beautiful, heavy doc by Herzog that, as others have noted, will make you happy for all you have. Its choice of subject—a high-functioning deaf-blind woman who serves, in effect, as an ambassador for a community largely cut off from communication—moves the film from exploitation to advocacy. This is an ode to the sanctity of human consciousness in all forms. Herzog would make better docs, but this is hard to forget.