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Seattle Weekly Presents: SIFF Calvary

Saturday | June 7

7 pm | SIFF Uptown Cinema

Brendan Gleeson delivers one of his best performances as a priest in a small Irish coastal town—a gruff yet acutely feeling soul whose steadfast quest for goodness arises from a deeper spiritual belief in both man and God. One day while hearing confession, a mysterious figure tells Father James Lavelle that he will be murdered in one week’s time. His crime? Being innocent. Over the coming week, Father James wanders about his parish, ministering to his flock—a foul-mouthed rogues gallery that includes an atheist doctor, a closeted police inspector, and an aging American author. However, as the week wanes, Father James must reckon with his prophesized death, a situation that only grows more dire with the arrival of his troubled daughter. With his follow-up to The Guard, writer-director John Michael McDonagh proves again to be a master of Guinness-dark comedy, and yet his new film is much more complex than its predecessor, being both a vulgar morality play as well as a metaphysical murder mystery.

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