Sentences with phrase «young priests played»

Neeson will fittingly play mentor to two young priests played by Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield, two household names that have been bubbling under the Academy's radar for quite a while now.

Not exact matches

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

Doubt, the 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley, also revolves around a mystery involving an alleged offense committed by a Catholic priest against a young boy.

The movie is about a communist woman in Nazi - occupied France (Emmanuelle Riva) who must question everything she knows when she meets a handsome young priest, played by Jean - Paul Belmondo.

Based on an actual case that happened in Romania's Moldova region in 2005, the film unfolds in and around a remote monastery where pious young women — many of them orphans who have merely migrated from one form of institutional living to another — toil dutifully under the ever - watchful eye of an austere priest known as Papa (played by the excellent Valeriu Andriuta).

I suppose given the tenor of this list, Melville is pretty predictable, being that he's a genius of crime noir, but this film is neither noir nor gangster; it's about a thoughtful, intelligent, wise, and committed country priest, played by the young Jean - Paul Belmondo -LRB-!).

Following not long after is Father Bill Lombardy (Peter Sarsgaard), a chess playing priest who once beat a young Fischer, and is now on board to help analyze games and practice with him.

Melville plays on the power of Belmondo, a handsome, young, newly - minted movie star of French cinema in 1961, as a strong, striking, confident priest in a town of women without men.

But two of his masterpieces in other genres are: L'armée des ombres, a gripping account of the French resistance with Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret in particularly fine form, and Léon Morin, prêtre, another wartime drama, which pits a communist atheist, in full spiritual crisis, magnificently played by Emmanuelle Riva, against Belmondo, unusually cast as a totally engaged young priest.

Ethan Hawke plays the priest who is called by young pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) to advise her troubled environmental activist husband (Philip Ettinger).

Here, in Nick Hornby's adaptation of a Colm Tóibín novel, she's travelling in the opposite direction — playing Eilis (pronounced Ailish), a young woman growing up in Ireland in the 1950s who, thanks to the generous foresight of her sister Rose and a kindly Catholic priest now based in New York, is given the chance of emigrating to America.

Many of the film's priests use shame liberally, but one young priest — played with vigour by Sherlock «s Andrew Scott — offers hope and understanding.