Available Friday, April 17 via Virtual Screening Room
Poland’s entry for last year’s Best International Feature Oscar, Corpus Christi follows 20-year-old Daniel, a young offender who experiences a spiritual awakening while locked up in a Youth Detention Center. With his criminal record halting his dream of entering the priesthood, Daniel dons the cassock and collar he swiped from the reformatory and accidentally takes over a small town parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic preacher catalyzes the community’s healing following a local tragedy.
“Corpus Christi is neither a parable nor an allegory, yet image after image seems charged with intent, from the opening shot… to the climax, an apocalyptic welter of fire and blood.” — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
“Often moving but also disquieting and even intermittently funny, this drama unfurls a spiritual parable that is uniquely Polish but accessible to all.” — Leslie Felperin, Guardian
“Starring a complexly compelling Bartosz Bielenia, this is a blistering drama, intense, disturbing and inescapably thought-provoking, a film that gets its power from a merging of potent opposites.” — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
directed by
Jan Komasa
Jan Komasa
written by
Mateusz Pacewicz
Mateusz Pacewicz
with
Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel, Tomasz Zietek
Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel, Tomasz Zietek
language
Polish (with English subtitles)
Polish (with English subtitles)
country
Poland
Poland