I didn't have a problem with the running time, though I'm glad I don't wear a watch. But I felt the overall structure could have been better, too many snippets rather than full scenes, even with the Gregorian chants, you were getting little samples rather than the whole.

The perfect person for a documentary like this, to capture the essence, the scenery, the ambiance, would have been Terrence Malick. Then we may well have had a work of art rather than an engrossing but ultimately flat record of the life of this monastary.

Cheers Trev.