This movie has a glacial pace. Nothing much happens until the final few minutes of the film for a chase.
The movie is grim, bleak, gritty, dirty, shopworn, colourless. The protagonists are not very appealing. Even Christian Slater plays a sort of car salesman type personality who gradually grows some backbone.
The movie depicts the tedium, hierarchy and obsession with ecclesiastical trivia that makes up a priest's life. The church is corrupt, concerned only with its image.
Everybody in the movie would have been better off without the church. Their fascination with it derailed their lives.
Molly Parker plays the lead female. She reminds me a bit of Olive Oyl with her unnaturally lanky body.
Nancy Beatty plays a sort of Dickensian arch villain. She is about the only colourful character in the film.
The movie is grim, bleak, gritty, dirty, shopworn, colourless. The protagonists are not very appealing. Even Christian Slater plays a sort of car salesman type personality who gradually grows some backbone.
The movie depicts the tedium, hierarchy and obsession with ecclesiastical trivia that makes up a priest's life. The church is corrupt, concerned only with its image.
Everybody in the movie would have been better off without the church. Their fascination with it derailed their lives.
Molly Parker plays the lead female. She reminds me a bit of Olive Oyl with her unnaturally lanky body.
Nancy Beatty plays a sort of Dickensian arch villain. She is about the only colourful character in the film.