The Soul of the Bone
Audience Score
StarringDomingos Albino Ferreira
DirectorCao Guimarães
1 hr 14 minDocumentary
Plot
The Soul of the Bone gradually reveals the apparently isolated existence of Dominguinhos a 72yearold hermit who lives inside a cave that juts off from a rock mountain The film is composed of long silences in which the hermit executes his daily chores such as cooking and cleaning and of images that transcend his territory Towards the end we discover that silence is commonplace in the hermits life the normal state in which time passes Speech is the state of exception