Portrait of a Lady on Fire

MPAA Rating: NR Rating: ★★★½
Release Year: 2019
Director: Céline Sciamma

Bright Wall / Dark Room – Religious Cinema for Non-Believers: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’

For Bright Wall / Dark Room’s Issue 70, “Going Long,” I wrote about Martin Scorsese’s 2016 masterpiece of religious cinema, Silence. The long-form essay was also chosen to be published at RogerEbert.com. Here’s an excerpt: In the beginning, there is only darkness. Crickets chirp and cicadas buzz. There is some small comfort in the auditory, a living hum in the blackness and blindness. Through the void, the sounds of nature build and crescendo, peaking to an almost unbearable cacophony until… …