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Priest

In a world of rituals, in a place of secrets, a man must choose between keeping the faith and exposing the truth.

6.4 / 10

98 minutes

1995-03-24

English

GB

Actors :

Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson, Lesley Sharp, Robert Pugh, Christine Tremarco, James Ellis, Anthony Booth, Paul Barber, Rio Fanning, Marsha Thomason, Bill Dean, Gilly Coman, Fred Pearson

Description

Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

Reviews

dePeatrick

dePeatrick

6/23/2021, 3:58:01 PM

Good Movie, good acting, has not dated as much as you would expect.

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2/8/2024, 11:28:16 PM

**A complex film, with a script that covers many issues at the same time.** Before I start writing my review, I think I should leave a note of personal context: I am a Catholic, a regular practitioner, and I live in a country where almost all the population also declares themselves Catholic, although with fluctuating regularity in the mass, a youth increasingly strange to faith and spirituality...