The New Yorker
Neither a parable nor an allegory, yet image after image seems charged with intent, from the opening shot... to the climax, an apocalyptic welter of fire and blood.
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Corpus Christi
A young offender, spiritually reborn, masquerades as a village priest in order to achieve his God-given dream in this Oscar-nominated Polish drama.
During his time in a Youth Detention Center, a 20-year-old becomes spiritually reborn. However, since his crime prevents him from applying to the seminary, he instead poses as a minister of a small-town parish.
2020Rating: R16, Violence, offensive language, drug use & sex scenes115 minsPolandPolish with English subtitles
DramaWorld Cinema
- Director:
- Jan Komasa ('Warsaw '44', 'Suicide Room')
- Writer:
- Mateusz Pacewicz
- Cast:
- Barbara KurzajEliza RycembelTomasz ZietekBartosz BieleniaAleksandra Konieczna
Corpus Christi / Reviews
Slant Magazine
It's within the murky realm of self-doubt and spiritual anxiety that it's at its most audacious and compelling.
Full reviewThe New York Times
Shot in a grim, desaturated palette, this Polish film, directed by Jan Komasa, addresses big issues of conscience and morality.
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A.V. Club
It deviates enough from formula-especially in its arresting ending, which takes full advantage of Bielenia's haunted visage-to be worth seeing.
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Rolling Stone
This is a movie that wants you to think about what redemption really means. And it has a lead... [that's] your new Hot Priest, Eastern European Division.
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Los Angeles Times
Directed by Jan Komasa in only his third feature and starring a complexly compelling Bartosz Bielenia, this is a blistering drama, intense, disturbing and inescapably thought-provoking, a film that gets its power from a merging of potent opposites.
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San Francisco Chronicle
A quite interesting and irresistible movie, a sort of cross between Paul Schrader's recent film of spiritual crisis, "First Reformed," and Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can."
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Sydney Morning Herald
It's Shane, with more vodka and fewer horses. It's as Polish as a cabbage roll, yet startlingly universal.
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Hollywood Reporter
There's visual command and a compelling intimacy to the storytelling, plus intellectual engagement in the reflection on who gets to claim nearness to God.
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The Guardian
Often moving but also disquieting and even intermittently funny, this drama unfurls a spiritual parable that is uniquely Polish but accessible to all.
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Film Threat
The film is an important one, but above all, it is an exceptionally pleasing and easy one to watch despite its density.
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