Acclaimed films to nurture and inspire you on your Lenten journey. Three consecutive evenings. February 21-23, 20116 in Parish Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Free admission and refreshments provided. Each film will be introduced and there will be a group discussion immediately following the feature.
Sunday, February 21, 2016 7:00 p.m.
THE MISSION (1986) 122 mins. PG
“Thus have we made the world.”
Directed by Roland Joffé. Starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
“A sweeping spectacle.” Jack Krol, Newsweek
Monday, February 22, 2016 7:00 p.m.
DOUBT (2008) 104 mins. PG-13
“Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.”
Directed by John Patrick Shanley. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. A Catholic school principal questions a priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
“It’s the dramatist’s business to sow doubt, to set down points of view that can’t be reconciled, and Shanley makes visceral the notion that one can be right but never absolutely right, that doubt might be our last, best hope.” David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 7:00 p.m.
OF GODS AND MEN (2010) 122 mins. PG-13
“Remember that love is eternal hope. Love endures everything.”
Directed by Xavier Beauvois. Starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
“The number of good films about the workings of faith is pitifully small; the number that manage to dramatize interfaith harmony without sliding into a mush of unknowingness is smaller still. Like the monks’ home, this film stands almost alone.” Anthony Lane, The New Yorker