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The Prayer

La prière (The Prayer)

2018

Cédric Kahn

Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Àlex Brendemühl, Louise Grinberg ...

5.4

326

Drama Twenty-two-year-old Thomas can’t kick his drug habit. His last chance is a community of young men from different countries and social backgrounds who also want to overcome their addictions and are living together in a remote house in the French mountains. Supervised by a Catholic priest, their days revolve around regular prayer, solidarity and hard labour in the fields. Not everyone manages to submit themselves to this monastic ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] compelling portrait of rehab and religion (...) [A] razor-sharp direction and excellent choice of cast"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Cédric Kahn returns in strong, unfussy form with this poignant but unsentimental study (...) The film is gracefully even-handed in its depiction of a religiously dictated community"	POS
United Kingdom	Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"The obviously well-researched proceedings at the facility are completely convincing but only mildly interesting much of the time (...) Always watchable but not transcendent"	NEU

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