Sentences with phrase «former military chaplain»

At once sensitive and outrageous, minimalist and grotesque, Paul Schrader's dual homage to Diary Of A Country Priest and Winter Light (with a bit of his classic script for Taxi Driver thrown in for good measure) stars Ethan Hawke as Rev. Toller, a depressed, alcoholic former military chaplain who tends to a nearly abandoned old abolitionist church in upstate New York, convinced that his true calling is an «all - consuming knowledge of the emptiness of all things.»

First Reformed is a dismal, confused film about a middle - aged former military chaplain turned preacher.

First Reformed, where Toller, a former military chaplain, tends his paltry flock, is known as «the gift shop.»

But Ethan Hawke has become such a supple actor that he takes the role of Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain who has found refuge in his life as a small - town reverend, and makes it convincing.

He is a former military chaplain ministering to a tiny congregation in upstate New York, and he can't get past the deep grief and spiritual isolation caused by the ill - fated death of his enlisted son.

First Reformed stars Ethan Hawke as a former military chaplain grieving the death of his son.

Hawke stars as a former military chaplain grieving over the death of his son, but the story takes a number of surprising turns and many critics have praised Schrader's steady, subtle direction.

SYNOPSIS: A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son.

SCHRADER: He is a former military chaplain who came from a line of ministers in a line of patriotic soldiers, and he had, against his wife's desires, kind of convinced his son to enter the military whereupon his son was killed in Iraq and whereupon his wife left him and whereupon he quit the military and was lost.

Ethan Hawke stars as Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain turned small - town minister at a chapel operated by a larger mega-church.

Ethan Hawke brings a powerful sense of inner turmoil to the role of Reverend Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain who now leads a tiny congregation at a Dutch Reformed church in upstate New York.

He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

Toller, you see, was a former military chaplain who encouraged his son to enlist only to see him return home from the Middle East in a body bag.

He finds himself oddly compelled by a radical environmentalist, Michael (Philip Ettinger), starting to fall for the environmentalist's pregnant wife, Mary (Amanda Seyfried), and it's clear that Toller, a former military chaplain, has never really processed the death of his own son, who died in combat in Iraq.

A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son.

He stars as Toller, a former military chaplain who's been appointed the minister of a small, historical church on the cusp of its historic reconsecration.

They are especially compelling when the world beyond them, its politics and accumulating troubles (Toller is a former military chaplain), render them powerless and force them to action.