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Clergy
dir. Wojcieh Smarzowski
The story of three catholic priests. The movie begins with a bender in which the main characters take part. The evening ends with having a fight between two of them and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The movie is a portrayal of all sins of the Church: sexual abuse of children, child care home running by nuns, where one child mistreats the smallest ones with silent permission of the nuns, bribery and engaging in politics by the head of Polish Church, careerism and greed.
The first of the main characters, Lisowski, was brought up in an orphanage. As an adult, he became a careerist and blackmailer, who'd do anything to be promoted and removed to Watykan.
Second one, Trybus, is a local priest somewhere in a rural parish. He has an affair with a young woman (Joanna Kulig), who getS pregnant and wantS to have an abortion.
The last priest Kukuła, is accused of sexual abuse of one of his acolytes - a boy from the a poor family. He is moved to a house for retired priests.
Smarzowski made a movie, which concerns deadly sins of Polish Church (and Church in general). His movie is very balanced. It's clear that the goal of the director wasn't cheap scandal. He points out different guilts, but he also shows the human face of all main characters.
Smarzowski doesn't make easy movies and this one is also like that, but he moderated the story with A few funny situation, during watching I laughed out loud. That never happened to me before with any Smarzowski movie.
And one thing more, a few scenes were shot in Cracow.
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Last edited by Ms. M; 11-04-18 at 08:18 AM.