A film like theatrical experience. In the best tradition of Broadway, probably. Although it is not on Broadway, which takes place the story of "Doubt", but in the Bronx. Another story.
The Bronx of 1964 (about a year after the "emotional castaways" of Chesil Beach, which we wrote about last month).
Here is the parish St. Nicholas and the attached school, Sister Aloysius chaired authoritarianism, terror of the young students.
A to start the story, however, is the submissive sister James, the older sister who confesses to the strong, very strong suspicion that the interest of another teacher, Father Flynn, a student at the school has a nature morbid. But how to prove the terrible sins of the priest at the absence of evidence?
The serious allegations of the sisters suffered give way to a confrontation that will address the reluctance of the parish priest and close dialogue with a solid script (not for nothing, theatrical), that are not open to too many virtuoso director: everything is "reduced" (or, perhaps, increases) in pure theater. A photograph icy and camera movements symmetrical framing the pale faces of a cast of great actors, perfectly at ease in holding 104 minutes of intense dialogue. Meryl Streep (who had a face so full of corners we would not ever noticed!) Still gives the best proof of the tremendous actress playing Sister Aloysius Beauvier duel to the sounds of screaming invectives garbatissime, with Philip Seymour Hoffman (Father Flynn) Priest's most progressive and well-liked by the students of the school. The delicate role of Sister James is instead given to Amy Adams, too, as the two colleagues the most famous, Oscar nominee. An American film so compelling and yet extraordinarily dry not seen for some time. Certainly on the skill of the director John Patrick Shanley, author of the screenplay and stage play (which won the Pulitzer Prize), from which the film itself is drawn.
an ideological clash of generations and, besides personality, what animates the scenes between the two protagonists: the discipline of a nun granite older, pre-Vatican II, which seems to contemplate the possibility of doubts, uncertainties and other side of the barricade, the mild indulgence, the alleged father of modern Flynn, however, could conceal more sinister intentions. And, viewers always doubters, those who decide to judge?
Enjoy.
Rating 7.5 / 10
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