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Daniel Kasman 15 Sep 2017. Ernst Toller, a troubled priest of a small church in upstate New York, begins to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with Mary and her unstable environmental activist husband. Consumed by thoughts that the world is in danger, Toller embarks on a perilous self-assigned undertaking.
May 17, 2018 · Paul Schrader’s beautiful, bruising First Reformed is the movie for you. Ethan Hawke is superb as Toller, an ex–military chaplain reckoning with a painful past. He’s been made the pastor of ...
Aug 30, 2017 · Schrader’s “ First Reformed ” spans those high/low, art/pulp obsessions with a reach as arresting as it is (knowingly) nutty. The movie is about a pensive, melancholy reverend in upstate New ...
Aug 30, 2017 · August 30, 2017. Ethan Hawke stars as the leader of a tiny congregation at the First Reformed Church in a fictitious town in upstate New York. Photograph Courtesy Arclight Films. I’m not at the ...
Official Trailer. A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in motion. A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son.
Oct 3, 2018 · The Plot. ‘First Reformed’ is set in the decaying town of Snowbridge in New York and derives its title from the church which houses our deeply-conflicted protagonist. The washed-off, pale snow grows trees with no leaves; trees that stand tall in agony, weathering the harsh climate. The raucous atmosphere is placated to some extent by the ...
First Reformed Review. New England. Father Ernst Toller (Hawke) is a pastor of a small Dutch Reformed church. When he is asked by earnest parishioner Mary (Seyfried) to counsel her depressed ...
