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.
- Director:
- Jan Komasa ('Warsaw '44', 'Suicide Room')
- Writer:
- Mateusz Pacewicz
- Cast:
- Barbara KurzajEliza RycembelTomasz ZietekBartosz BieleniaAleksandra Konieczna
Reviews & comments
This film is about as foreign as could be for me. Everything in it is so far away from anything I’ve ever experienced that it is honestly quite hard to find any part of it to relate to. But that’s not to say I wasn’t entertained. It was a funny story to behold, told through simple enough but good looking filmmaking, and a lead performance that was easy to...
The New Yorker
pressNeither 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.
Slant Magazine
pressIt's within the murky realm of self-doubt and spiritual anxiety that it's at its most audacious and compelling.
The New York Times
pressShot in a grim, desaturated palette, this Polish film, directed by Jan Komasa, addresses big issues of conscience and morality.
A.V. Club
pressIt deviates enough from formula-especially in its arresting ending, which takes full advantage of Bielenia's haunted visage-to be worth seeing.
Rolling Stone
pressThis 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.
Los Angeles Times
pressDirected 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.
San Francisco Chronicle
pressA 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."
Sydney Morning Herald
pressIt's Shane, with more vodka and fewer horses. It's as Polish as a cabbage roll, yet startlingly universal.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThere's visual command and a compelling intimacy to the storytelling, plus intellectual engagement in the reflection on who gets to claim nearness to God.
The Guardian
pressOften moving but also disquieting and even intermittently funny, this drama unfurls a spiritual parable that is uniquely Polish but accessible to all.
Film Threat
pressThe film is an important one, but above all, it is an exceptionally pleasing and easy one to watch despite its density.
The New Yorker
pressNeither 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.
Slant Magazine
pressIt's within the murky realm of self-doubt and spiritual anxiety that it's at its most audacious and compelling.
The New York Times
pressShot in a grim, desaturated palette, this Polish film, directed by Jan Komasa, addresses big issues of conscience and morality.
A.V. Club
pressIt deviates enough from formula-especially in its arresting ending, which takes full advantage of Bielenia's haunted visage-to be worth seeing.
Rolling Stone
pressThis 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.
Los Angeles Times
pressDirected 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.
San Francisco Chronicle
pressA 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."
Sydney Morning Herald
pressIt's Shane, with more vodka and fewer horses. It's as Polish as a cabbage roll, yet startlingly universal.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThere's visual command and a compelling intimacy to the storytelling, plus intellectual engagement in the reflection on who gets to claim nearness to God.
The Guardian
pressOften moving but also disquieting and even intermittently funny, this drama unfurls a spiritual parable that is uniquely Polish but accessible to all.
Film Threat
pressThe film is an important one, but above all, it is an exceptionally pleasing and easy one to watch despite its density.
This film is about as foreign as could be for me. Everything in it is so far away from anything I’ve ever experienced that it is honestly quite hard to find any part of it to relate to. But that’s not to say I wasn’t entertained. It was a funny story to behold, told through simple enough but good looking filmmaking, and a lead performance that was easy...
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