if you begin watch this film expect an explanatory documentary about monastic life in la grande chartreuse and you may soon become bored and feed up . if you begin watch this film expect to be take into the monastic way of life and you will soon find yourself there . the movie take the pace of the slow and quiet atmosphere of the monastery . long period of silence break by the occasional creak of floorboard or chant or bell and and very little dialogue . it be like each shot be a photograph . a move photograph . it be not entirely what one expect and however . keep an eye out for the odd object seemingly out of place represent the highlighter and the keyboard and the laptop while the odd conversation on a monk departure for seoul and south korea while the shot of monk slide down a snowy bank on their bum . i want more explanation how the individual choose this way of life while how they sustain their community while what contact they have with secular people . but it be not that kind of documentary . as long a youre prepare for that and it be a film worth watching .