Pernille Rose Grønkjær: The Monastery
The best – according to this blog writer – Danish documentary for years, “The Monastery”, is now to be seen or re-seen on French/German cultural channel arte on the following days: 9/10 (22.25), 21/10 (01.20), 24/10 (09.55)
arte has changed the title into “Le Monastère, M. Vig et la nonne”, it will be shown in vo (version originale) and this is how the French introduction looks like, pas mal du tout: “Dans un château en ruine transformé en monastère, l’émouvante rencontre entre un vieux théologien danois et une nonne russe orthodoxe. Un documentaire aux allures de conte, qui nous entraîne avec magie dans un univers mystique.”
Allan Berg has written a long and competent analysis of this film on this site. Search “pernille rose” at the left or go to
http://www.dfi.dk/tidsskriftetfilm/53/themanifold.htm
If you want to buy the film on dvd, go to the site below: