In the present day, a conversation with Seligman about Edgar Allan Poe and his death from delirium tremens reminds Joe of the last time she saw her sick father in hospital. (sensesofcinema.com)
There is a pressing need, he argues, to find the way out of contemporary liturgical banality in order to rediscover «something of the mysterium tremens et fascinans» of what the sacred liturgy, at its best, can truly express. (faith.org.uk)
Stripped to the bone, as capable of viciousness as it is tenderness, it achieves what seems impossible by creating a sense of the mysterium tremens in the body of a human - looking alien. (filmfreakcentral.net)