First Reformed | Trailer | Kino Otok 2019

First Reformed Paul Schrader, USA, UK, Australia, 2017, 113’ “Can God forgive us for what we’ve done to this world?” When the question of God’s will cuts into the everyday, it often causes silence. In the loneliness of his disease, pain and guilt, an embittered priest and former soldier heads the First Reformed museum-like church. The emptiness that spreads like rust under the surface of images is broken by a young parishioner who asks the priest to talk to her husband, a radical environmentalist. A manifesto of the ecological catastrophe, the excessiveness of capitalism and human greed, but also a brutally poetical manifesto of human loneliness and the need for closeness.