Powerful. Dark. Challenging present day stigma and showing the humanity of one man who was a priest in a small Irish town. This man becomes a target for the understandable rage of a young man. But from which young man? The connections are many and varied, but always with anger or disbelief. Brendan Gleeson carries this story masterfully. Not a cheery man, but a good man, his character is the center of this movie full of tension juxtaposed against great gentleness. Calvary is a story full of mystery. If you like happy endings this is not the movie for you. However, if you like endings full of tragic realism, please see this powerful story.
“I just wanted be be an ordinary parish priest.”
~ Martin Scorsese
**Now showing at the Odeon Theatre in Victoria, BC on Yates St.
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