En 1984 el director alemán Phillip Gröning pidió permiso a la Orden de los Cartujos para rodar una película en el interior de uno de sus monasterios. Le dijeron que era demasiado pronto. Quizás más adelante. Dieciséis años después recibió una llamada. Había llegado la hora... Los preparativos llevaron dos años, el rodaje uno y la postproducción dos más. Han transcurrido, por tanto, veintiún años hasta su completa finalización. El Gran Silencio muestra por primera vez el día a día dentro del "Grande Chartreuse", el monasterio de referencia en los Alpes franceses de la legendaria Orden de los Cartujos.
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
A snake creature secretly lurks inside a shopping mall. A family is fed a meal that turns them into monsters. An airplane hijacking is interrupted by the birth of a tiyanak.
On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's from the country and hasn't been able to find her boyfriend who came to the city earlier. The ex-con suggests having a little party together, but both are flat broke. He realizes there's an obvious solution.
A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.
Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs his film by working backwards and finding the sources for these items and how they reach our plates. As Moullet’s investigation deepens, however, the film moves beyond the confines of a simple exploration of food origins into more political and social realms, not only relating to food but also to the medium of film.
Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.
A man sits at the table and eats his meal...with rather unusual effects.
A mother and her son find themselves in an awkward situation where they live in the same building but they're separated due to different reasons. Mahmood develops a system to solve this issue and the situation starts to heat up.
We follow the course of three meals in very different situations. Two friends who could become more, a tense work lunch and the family dinner we all know about.