Cinema Partenio | sala 1 | at 6.30pm
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric Kyles
Year: 2017
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Running Time: 113’
Produced by: Killer Films, Omeira Studio Partners, Fibonacci Films, Big Indie Pictures
Distributed by: A24
Plot: “First Reformed” is a film about spiritual life starring Ethan Hawke as the minister of a small, historical and empty church. An ex-military chaplain, Toller is tortured by the loss of a son he encouraged to enlist in the armed forces. As Toller struggles with his faith, he is further challenged after a young couple, Mary and her radical environmentalist husband Michael, come to him for counselling. Consumed by thoughts that the world is being destroyed by big business and discovering the church’s complicity with unscrupulous corporations, Toller embarks on a perilous selfassigned undertaking with the hope that he may finally restore the faith and purpose he’s been longing for in his mission to right the wrongs done to so many.