One of the films any film fan ought to be looking forward to this year is John Michael McDonagh‘s reteaming with Brendan Gleeson for Calvary. The duo delivered the highly entertaining dark comedy The Guard a couple year ago and are now back together for yet another darkly comic feature.
Here Gleeson stars as Father James, a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter (Kelly Reilly) and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral–and often comic–problems, he feels sinister forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.
McDonagh, brother of Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) wrote and directs the feature which co-stars Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, Isaach De Bankolé, M. Emmet Walsh, Marie-Josée Croze, Domhnall Gleeson and David Wilmot.
Fox Searchlight has set an August 1 release, check out the trailer below.
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