WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 10, the Clark Art Institute continues its Small Town film series with a subtitled screening of Stellet Licht (2007) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center. 

 

According to a press release:

 

Bookended by a sunrise and a sunset, Carlos Reygadas' film unfolds gradually and beautifully. Set and filmed in a German Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico and with dialogue in the Mennonite dialect Plautdietsch, the film follows the simple story of a married man, Johan, (Cornelio Wall Fehr), who has fallen in love with another woman, Marianne, (Maria Pankratz), to the consternation of his wife Esther (Miriam Toews). The film explores the transgression of boundaries, be that the confines of the marital bed, the borders of the community, or indeed the boundaries of life and death itself. A cast of non-professional actors, all of whom are from Mennonite communities, give raw yet graceful performances. Often compared to Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1955 Ordet, Reygadas similarly combines an ascetic visual language with elements of magical realism. (Run time: 2 hours, 16 minutes)

 

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.