Not a thumbs down but a film I'm unlikely to watch again, it works very well as a record of the life of the monastary and is at times quite artistic. The change in seasons is caught well though it makes very little difference to the monks, apart from a slight bit of fun in the fresh snow.

One interesting and for me a somewhat surprising point was the age range of the monks, surprising because there were a fair few men in their 20's and 30's whereas I'd have thought that most if not all of them would have been far older.

A thumbs up just for the sheer efforts that Grning went through just to get the film made but I think that with the 120+ hours of film he captured during his stay, I feel the editing could have been better.

Cheers Trev.