Calvary (film)
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| Directed by | John Michael McDonagh |
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| Written by | John Michael McDonagh |
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| Music by | Patrick Cassidy |
| Cinematography | Larry Smith |
| Edited by | Chris Gill |
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101 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $16.9 million |
Calvary is a 2014 Irish drama film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh. It stars Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran and Isaach de Bankolé. The film began production in September 2012 and was released in April 2014 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, in July in Australia and August 2014 in the United States. The film was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
In a confessional, an unseen parishioner talks to Father James about his horrific childhood sexual abuse by a priest. He says he will kill James at the beach the next Sunday, because James is a good man and it would be worse and more disconcerting for the Catholic Church than killing a bad priest; in any case, the offender has already died. He gives James a week in order to settle all of his affairs at the parish. James later tells Bishop Garret Montgomery what happened and that he knows the parishioner. Bishop Montgomery comments that there was no confession since there was no formal prayer and the man was not repentant. He leaves it up to James whether or not he should go to the police.
James' daughter Fiona comes to visit from London after a failed suicide attempt. She had felt abandoned by her mother and James ever since he became a priest when her mother died. Fiona and James know they love each other, and try to repair their relationship.
James hears that local butcher Jack Brennan has hit his wife Veronica, who's having an affair, and James confronts Jack. Jack denies having hit her, and blames Veronica's Ivorian lover, Simon. James then visits several people, including an elderly American writer and Inspector Stanton, whose houseguest is apparently a male prostitute named Leo who makes lewd advances on James before leaving. James obtains a gun from the Inspector at the request of the writer, who had explained he would rather take his own life than get old and feeble.
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