Alicia I love this movie so much

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

preciosabelinda I live in Roswell & I supplied MANY props for the movie, animal bones. I was known as the Bone Lady. We all hung at the Roswell Inn, River in the bar with straws hanging out of his nose, Richard Harris coming into the lobby in an English night shirt ( scrooge type ), Sam Shepard being rude while fondling a blonde .. not Jessica Lange. Most on the film were wonderful. John "Scully" Sullivan, artistic director (Lonesome Dove), the little actors, they all came to my house for a homemade meal. Richard Harris had a heart attack while filming here also! Was very hot out there for them. My "bones" ended up as the Buffalo Graveyard AND the burial tree. Have the coyote skull Richard signed for me. R.I.P.

sexorcist6969 For me, this was an exercise in torture. I found it to be pretentious. Waaaaaaay over the top dramatically. Repulsive to look at. Bad acting. Bad dialogue. Almost as bad as Buried Child. I was reminded of The Emperor's New Clothes. People really do like to think of themselves as sophisticated, don't they...... A root canal would have been less painful. Oh, I particularly enjoyed the use of fingernails. Made me crave a manicure.

liderc This movie is great. Great actors (watch out for Tantoo Cardinal!), great script, photography and *great* score!! If you enjoy slow, atmospheric films like "Picnic at Hanging Rock", you will like this one, too! A soundtrack album and a DVD release would be really appreciated, not only by River Phoenix fans!

Fritz Langlois Hey, don't get me wrong. I have nothing against slow films. They often have a zen or contemplative quality that is a real antidote against noisy Hollywood blockbusters. So, perhaps I was not in the right mood for it, but SILENT TONGUE bored the hell out of me. The pictures are magnificent, there is a team of great talents (Sam Shepard, Richard Harris, River Phoenix) but it was next to impossible not to yawn and sleep. Most unnerving is Alan Bates, who looks like Albert Finney (round, British and inebriated), and like Albert Finney overplays a lot. The most interesting character is Richard Harris's (whose interpretation is one more proof of his genius, watch MAN IN THE WILDERNESS if you are not convinced). Many interesting elements everywhere, and again superb images, but, well, boring. The plot takes too many directions and the symbols are rather cryptic to me. Ingmar Bergman was right never to direct a film in the western genre. Again, don't get me wrong, I love Ingmar Bergman (and his daughter Anna).