Living in exile in La Boca, Chile, four disgraced priests and a nun (Antonia Zegers), suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, receive a visit from a clerical counselor (Marcelo Alonso).
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7 September 1934, Rengo, Chile
29 June 1972, Santiago, Chile
19 December 1955, Recoleta, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
16 January 1940, Santiago, Chile
11 February 1976, Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
1960, Tomé, Concepción, Biobío, Chile
28 January 1978, Santiago, Chile
6 July 1954, Santiago, Chile
16 June 1946, Talca, Chile
14 September 1974, Las Condes, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
1969, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
December 28, 2016
Few other films this year will provoke as much post-screening discussion, that's certain.
February 19, 2016
Larrain consciously took on the difficult, complicated themes of faith, truth and guilt here, a commendable task considering that avoiding the topic has been part of why it has escaped confrontation for so long.
February 19, 2016
We can't but enjoy the movie and its oddball characters - which makes us somehow complicit in their crimes.
March 04, 2016
Larrain makes all of his damaged characters somewhat likable and sympathetic (although the likability dims toward the end). Which only makes this meditation on mercy, forgiveness and twisted raw power more disturbing.
February 18, 2016
However artful Larraín's intentions, these are subjects best regarded with clarity.
December 28, 2016
In this zero-sum drama, despair is catching. But so is the fascination of watching a gifted filmmaker dissect the emotions and motivations of the sinned and sinned-against.
March 03, 2016
It's an interesting movie, odd and disturbing by design. But it's also effective.
January 02, 2017
If Larraín's intention was to both slam the church and give his audience a hint of how repulsed, traumatized, and likely complicit its victims felt, he hit it out of the park.
