Gay priest film
Priest (United Kingdom, )
The Catholic community's outcry against Priest has already begun, and it will doubtlessly become more intense before it abates. One of the most disturbing elements of any organized protest of this sort is that most of those involved will not have seen the picture in question. Another equally unfortunate byproduct is that, as was the case with The Last Temptation of Christ, the movie itself may receive lost somewhere in the resulting polarization. If that happens, it will be a shame, because Priest has a lot to say, and doesn't justify to be hamstrung by those who miss the point or have no idea what they're talking about.
The main character is Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache), a by-the-book, straightlaced Roman Catholic priest who is fresh to a rural parish in Great Britain. Father Greg is the sort who believes his employment is to give moral advice, not act as a social activist -- a charge he levels against fellow priest Father Matthew Thomas (Tom Wilkinson).
While trying to serve his flock, however, Father Greg has his own personal demons to
Priest ()
Another night of surfing Amazon Prime’s endless list of programs led me to a whopper of a clip. Antonia Bird’s breakthrough film “Priest” is an acting showcase trapped in a screenplay that is so muddled in reasonable discrepancies and alternate realities. It tackles every possible taboo in the manual and leaves no stone unturned in whatever shenanigans the plot proceeds to pitch at the audience.
Future “Law and Order” and “Vikings” star Linus Roache plays Greg, a seemingly by-the-book priest in a Liverpool parish. When we are first introduced to Greg, he chastises his liberally minded fellow priest Matthew (Tom Wilkinson) for having a back room fiancée (Cathy Tyson), to which Matthew retorts that she’s there in the event that he decides to leave the Divine Order. But Greg has an even bigger and more shocking secret himself, he’s a closeted homosexual man who frequents the local gay bar. It’s during one of these secrets jaunts that he meets and falls in love with Graham (Robert Carlyle). At the same period, Greg is troubled by a miss named Lisa (Christine Tremarco) who d &#;&#;Priest,&#; &#; one critic has written, &#;vigorously attack(s) the views of the Roman Catholic Church on homosexuality,&#; which is just the way the filmmakers probably desire the film to be positioned. Actually the film is an attack on the vow of celibacy, preferring sexuality of any sort to the notion that men should, could or would live chastely. The story takes us into a Liverpool rectory where the senior priest sleeps with the pretty black housekeeper, and the younger priest removes his Roman collar for nighttime soirees in gay bars. When he and his partner are caught in a police sweep, he is disgraced, but the older priest is pleased that the childish man has finally gotten in touch with his emotions, and begs him to return to the church to celebrate mass with him. (The bishop, who advises the offender to &#;p- &#; &#; off out of my diocese,&#; is portrayed, prefer all the church authorities, as a dried-up old bean.) The question of whether priests should be celibate is the subject of much debate right now. What is not in disbelief is that, to be ordained, they have to promise Priest arrived as the Catholic Church was under intense media scrutiny, with an ongoing 'paedophile priest' scandal and the 'outing' of a number of allegedly homosexual priests by gay pressure group Outrage. Priest, though, had a tortured year history behind it, beginning as a rejected storyline for Brookside (Channel 4, ), on which lapsed-Catholic writer Jimmy McGovern served his TV apprenticeship, before expanding to a ten-part take on the Ten Commandments. In , the BBC commissioned a three-part (later four-part) series, only to axe the project after some eight drafts. It was thanks to that rejection that McGovern threw himself so ferociously into Cracker (ITV, ), and it was thanks to that series' success that the BBC suddenly rediscovered its interest in Priest, now proposed as a cinema feature. During his research, McGovern interviewed a gay priest, whose sexual and spiritual torment was exacerbated by his extreme political and moral conservatism. His story became that of Father Greg, who arrives in inner-city Liverpool when his predecessor is unceremonio