He did not know anything beyond the hiss and screech of fighter planes passing overhead and the missiles falling, the bears bellowing in another part of the fortress, and the suddensilence of the birds.
People from the other tables had gone to bed: in the suddensilence we distinctly heard the deep roar of a serac, like the bones of a giant trying in vain to turn over in his bed of rock.
The director, Anton Corbijn, a Dutch-born still photographer, works in a disciplined, Precisionist style dry, hard-focus color (Martin Ruhe is the cinematographer) and long stretches of silence (the occasional gunshots are as startling as a sudden crack across the kneecap).