NO GREATER LOVE

The Beauty of Silence

We cordially invite everyone to NO GREATER LOVE, a beautifully shot documentary about the Carmelite nuns in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Notting Hill.

It was only after ten years of correspondence with the Monastery that award-winning film and television director Michael Whyte was allowed to enter the premises of what is perhaps one of the most stringent cloisters left in the West. Here, nuns uphold silence for as long as twenty-two hours a day and have but two hours of recreation, rarely leave the premises except to visit a doctor or dentist, and are entirely devoted to prayer and meditation. Michael Whyte does not use a narrator but quietly and observantly follows the nuns as they pray, sing hymns, cook, tend the garden and make their own clothes. A few nuns are interviewed and their charm and wit confound general perception and show that nuns are not only serious all the time but can be humorous too.

NO GREATER LOVE offers an inspiring and absorbing insight into religion at the same time that it presents an alternative way of living so removed in its tranquility from our frantic and materialistic lifestyle. Take the time to enjoy a moment of peace through this film.

NO GREATER LOVE: November, 15 - 4:00 pm - Babylon

britspotting rewind: November, 17 - 6:15 pm - Babylon