Comments on: Too Rich

By: siren19

siren19 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:46:44 +0000

I also watched it in the theater, which has the virtue of compelling a non-stop experience (and for some, the vice of doing so in a dark room). I think I just told myself before it started that, OK, this is just going to be really, really slow. And then I was fine with it.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:05:39 +0000

Oh, I love this movie. It’s a rich contemplative masterpiece. Though I’ve yet to be able to watch the whole thing in one sitting (restless soul that I am).

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:53:53 +0000

A good book to read about Carthusian life is An Infinity of Little Hours. Follows five men as they enter St. Hugh’s Charterhouse in Parkminster, England. Very detailed about Carthusian life, buildings, liturgy, and the experience of leaving one’s life behind (one guy was from the neighborhood I’m sitting in, here in Chicago) and either staying or eventually dropping out of the monastery.

A story is told in that book (I think) of a novice who disappeared after his first night in his cell. They found a note that said, “Please send my things to Edinburgh.” :)

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:41:59 +0000

I watched it in a cinema, so I could not really ask them to stop it: but I do recall being restless a few times. I wouldn’t survive a day in a place like that, as much as I like to think it may be for me.

And yes: a “beautiful, precious film” is a great way to describe it.

By: Jamie Hollis

Jamie Hollis — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:57:46 +0000

It really is a beautiful film-but I had the same problem-I watched it in three segments instead of all the way through in one setting.

By: Huw

Huw — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:45:42 +0000

I wept when they were hugging the novices.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:34:07 +0000

Wonder if you wept like I did when the novice was conducted to his cell, prayed for, and then left in the care of the novice-master.

Beautiful, precious film. I think I read that the director “didn’t want to make a film about a monastery, but a film that IS a monastery.” Indeed.

Enjoy the rest of it…I’m halfway through a re-watch of it myself.