The Crime of Padre Amaro

Buy This Item The Crime of Padre Amaro by Sony Pictures  Available from Amazon  $17.99  on 11-25-2008     This controversial film follows a handsome young priest, Padre Amaro (played by Gael Garcia Bernal from <I>Y Tu Mamá También</I> and <I>Amores Perros</I>), who arrives in a small town and finds himself surrounded by hypocrisy and corruption--and also finds himself tempted by a beautiful young woman who confesses that when she "touches herself," she thinks of Jesus. What makes <I>El Crimen del Padre Amaro</I> (<I>The Crime of Father Amaro</I>) particularly effective is that Amaro is no innocent--he skillfully forces a newspaper publisher to retract a scandalous story about the Church and is willing to take extreme steps to preserve his career. Some of the movie's harsher digs at the Catholic Church have provoked accusations of prejudice; but though <I>Padre Amaro</I> portrays a world in which no one's hands are clean, it also finds redeeming qualities in every character. A complex, completely engrossing movie. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I> Reader Reviews After being pleased with "Motorcycle Diaries", I thought I would check out more of Gael Garcia Bernal's work. This movie was a huge disappointment. It was so amateurish that the darker aspects seemed silly, and the ending that could have been poignantly tragic, seemed sordid and pointless. As a practing Catholic myself, I was curious to see what the Mexican Church found so scandalous about this movie. At the end of the movie, I was left thinking that philosophical differences with the Church should be explored, but sophmoric mudslinging might just deserve repression.

The Crime of Padre Amaro Available from Amazon Price: $17.99 Updated on 11-25-2008.

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