Padre Pio

Deep-fried friar Ferrara esoterica. A sweeping political backdrop shot as communal faces by candlelight, interspersed with Padre Pio's spiritual journey -- altogether unbound struggle. It's another example that shows how important 1998's New Rose Hotel is in Ferrara's…

Ziglet_mir

Ferrara is one of my favourite filmmakers in the world. it doesn’t surprise me that he cast LaBeouf, nor does it surprise me that he found resonance in helping “guide” him onto the right path after he went down a dark tunnel of alcoholism. Ferrara was raided Catholic, was…

Logan Kenny

Abel Ferrara's latest is set early in Italy's interwar period, and puts the story of the titular priest's tortured spiritual (and, to a much lesser extent, political) journey in conversation with the era's rising left- and right-wing movements. Ferrara's late-period movies…

Will Sloan

It is very much a movie playing around ideas, sacred and political, as they can be filtered through Ferrara's immediate style. Ideology - political and religious - arriving at the body. The scenes with LaBeouf have a certain raw power that's recognizable Ferrarian and as…

Filipe Furtado

when Padre Pio’s not on the screen, the other characters should be asking, “where’s Padre Pio?” a tale of 2 films more than anything else in Abel Ferrara’s catalogue, which checks out when considering his career of genius inconsistency. the Shia freakout scenes recall the…

eddie

Furthers the smeary digital impressionism of Tommaso & Zeros and Ones to reach out towards a filmic texture & language that we have probably never seen & outside of this Ferrara era will probably never see again. A religious & political & historical piece of cinematic…

Collin Brinkmann

Not a bad movie per se, but in trying to show the socio-political tensions that were boiling during Padre Pio's time, the movie loses focus and becomes a political drama that happens to have him in it. It also portrays Padre Pio as a troubled priest rather than showing why…

TheDarkKnightJF

Por mim era 120 min do Shia LaBeouf saindo no braço com o demônio. Talvez na próxima. Comentei no youtube: https://youtu.be/KruAqSuh1aA

Arthur Tuoto

Ferrara’s PASSION.  A blind spot in one of my favorite filmmakers’ career, fueled by the need to do some research. 
Shia continues to be one of the most gifted actors using his previous blockbuster cache to take on challenging roles, almost feels like atonement for his “No…

Joe Lynch