{"id":6525,"date":"2018-04-06T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2018-04-06T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:19:28","slug":"high-praise-for-a-quiet-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6525","title":{"rendered":"HIgh Praise for “A Quiet Place”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KEEP QUIET \u2014 OR ELSE<\/h4>\n

One of the best \u2018silent films\u2019 in years<\/h2>\n

Chris Knight gives A QUIET PLACE \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 out of 5<\/h6>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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  • Montreal Gazette\u00a0
  • CHRIS KNIGHT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n
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    PHOTOS: PARAMOUNT PICTURES Millicent Simmonds, left, and Noah Jupe are silent siblings on the run from out-of-this-world monsters in the movie A Quiet Place. Top: Emily Blunt also stars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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    A QUIET PLACE \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 out of 5 Cast: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds Director: John Krasinski Duration: 1h30m<\/p>\n

    The general rule in horror movies is that things always get very quiet before something horrible happens. So how does it work if it\u2019s quiet all the time?<\/p>\n

    It works magnificently in A Quiet Place, directed by John Krasinski and starring him and his wife, Emily Blunt. They play a married couple living in a postapocalyptic world that has one rule to keep you alive: Shhh.<\/p>\n

    We\u2019re thrown into things on \u201cDay 89,\u201d the onscreen title tells us, and left to piece together what\u2019s going on. But the screenplay, by Krasinski and horror writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, never leaves us in the dark for long.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s immediately obvious that the family has to be quiet. The reason why comes in the form of a headline screaming from what I\u2019m guessing was the final edition of The New York Post. And a possible way out tiptoes into the picture about halfway through its 90 minutes, making you want to shout at the screen for the characters to notice it too. But shouting would be unwise.<\/p>\n

    There\u2019s also some delicious tension. Early in the film, a pair of AA batteries signals a catastrophe waiting to happen. Later, a rusty nail will loom larger than the snow globe in Citizen Kane, or the Maltese falcon in that other old movie.<\/p>\n

    After the opening credits, we\u2019re suddenly a year and a bit later: Day 472 if you\u2019re keeping score. The family \u2014 I don\u2019t think we ever hear their names \u2014 is living on a farm, where they grow corn (the silent grain?) and play Monopoly with fuzzy felt tokens. (So many other games are out \u2014 Trouble, Uno, Boggle, Operation, KerPlunk.) Communication is aided by the fact that the daughter (Millicent Simmonds) is deaf, so everyone knows sign language.<\/p>\n

    But the family is about to get bigger. Blunt\u2019s character is clearly pregnant and, regardless of what you may have heard, newborns are notoriously noisy, as is the act of having them.<\/p>\n

    This seems a good place to mention the monsters. No one knows where they came from, but they clearly have some DNA from Ridley Scott\u2019s Alien, although that\u2019s true of almost every beast of the past 40 years. They\u2019re leggier with heads like overripe melons. And they can hear better than your kids in the next bedroom. Scary, I know.<\/p>\n

    Family-affair movies can feel like vanity projects \u2014 see Guy Ritchie\u2019s Swept Away, or Will and Jaden Smith in After Earth \u2014 but about the worst you can say about this one is: Great chemistry between the leads? Well of course: They\u2019ve had 10 years and two children together to build it!<\/p>\n

    There are some lovely moments as well between Simmonds and her movie brother (Noah Jupe), one of whom is carrying a load of guilt on tiny shoulders. Let\u2019s hope they know how to suffer in silence.<\/p>\n

    And the film is a technical triumph, too. Cinematography is by Denmark\u2019s Charlotte Bruus Christensen, who knows exactly how to direct your gaze to where it\u2019s needed \u2014 unless, like me, you are watching much of the movie through spread fingers. And Marco Beltrami\u2019s score is not only beautiful but essential in a film with so little spoken dialogue.<\/p>\n

    Finally, let us turn back to Krasinski, who doesn\u2019t just direct the film \u2014 he conducts it. A Quiet Place joins Get Out, It Follows, The Babadook and The Cabin in the Woods as one of the great horror movies of the past decade. It\u2019s one of the best \u201csilent movies\u201d of the past hundred years. And it has such a fantastic ending that I wanted to dive back in just to experience again the way it sneaks up on us. Silently. Of course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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