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Mar 14, 2024 · Get This $2 Book! Lavelle’s ordeal in Calvary is a kind of dramatized analogy of Girard’s theory. The film is unrelentingly bleak in its portrayal of the human condition without God. Lavelle’s parishioners are both deeply depraved—adulterers, apostates, thieves, and murderers—and deeply pathetic, wounded by senseless evils that seem ...
Sep 9, 2014 · Real shepherding was, and is, a dirty and hard-edged business. John Michael McDonagh’s film “Calvary” shows, with extraordinary vividness, what authentic spiritual shepherding looks like and how it feels for a priest to have a shepherd’s heart. The movie opens in the quiet of the confessional, where Fr. James, played by the always ...
Jan 19, 2014 · “Calvary” is an Irish wake of a movie; it’s sad, and it has a lot to mourn over, but in that grief an epiphany emerges. When everything is gone and all that remains is charity, one realizes that anything else was never that important or fundamental. Even in death one must make room for friendship, love and a good time. This stunning film ...
May 18, 2018 · Directed by John Michael McDonagh. Written by John Michael McDonagh. In the credits at the end of Calvary (2014), interspersed among the endless lists of names, are still shots of sites significant for the story line: a booth in the town pub, a table in a café, a split rock, the beach—but now they are empty because the priest has been murdered.
- Moral Terror in An Arrestingly Beautiful Environment
- Gallows Humor and Unusual Sets
- A Must-See
Father Lavelle appears to be a truly good man, with a good heart – Brendan Gleeson plays him convincingly and with integrity. He’s like a giant cuddly teddy bear, and he just wants the world to be a better place. Nevertheless, he is disillusioned, disappointed by the people around him. His composure starts to crack when on the third day, his church...
When Calvary was announced and I saw it was tagged as a comedy, I was disappointed. I thought this topic was not at all suitable for light humor. Thankfully, while Calvary is very funny at times, it definitely can’t be said it’s light. The humor is cutting, dark and witty. The sets are unusual and frequently arresting, the prime example being the s...
Calvary has gone relatively unnoticed, it seems, but it’s an absolute must-see. The performances are on-point, particularly that of Brendan Gleeson, who is convincing and soulful. The direction and script are excellent, as is the cinematography. It’s a beautiful piece of art, a movie that makes you think – not just on moral decisions of people in g...
Aug 1, 2014 · A mordant sense of duality that eventually takes on near-apocalyptic dimensions runs through this very darkly comic tale, telling a week in the life of Father James. Sunday kicks off pretty horribly. A man ostensibly offering Father James his confession explicitly describes his sexual abuse at the hands of the priest years earlier, and outline ...
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Aug 3, 2014 · The man's dead. RATH: That is from the opening scene of John Michael McDonagh's new film "Calvary." The priest, played by Brendan Gleeson, is under threat. We don't know who it is, though. We meet ...
