Not exact matches
16 - 22) and the specific
allusions to episodes in the Gospel story, and in particular to the ministry
of John the Baptist (the fullest account in the New Testament
outside the Gospels) and the trial before Pilate.
These articulations, together with
allusions to contemporary sun - saturated paintings, the illustrated «girls» stories»
of Louise Mack, fairytales and dreams, summon an internalised, Utopian realm that occludes the
outside world, and is movingly evoked in the credit sequence, its pictorial timelessness framed by two textual statements
of time and place.
I'm uncertain just why the film is called The Quiet Ones,
outside of a murky
allusion made late in the film.
«Ryman's continued interest in painting itself and in paint seen just for itself with no illusions, or
allusions, or references
outside a work -LSB-...] the «how»
of painting contains the meaning» (p. 12, 1969, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London).