Camino al cielo - El apóstol
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0118632/
Jonathan Rosenbaum best of 1998 :
1 - Inquietude (Oliveira)
2 - The taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
3 - The apostle (Duvall)
The Apostle
Robert Duvall's remarkable feature reveals that the United States has something resembling a global community inside its borders--an interracial gathering of Christian believers that's generally excluded from its cinema. Serving as writer, director, executive producer, and star, Duvall brought that community into the mainstream of American cinema, giving it a broad canvas without imposing the usual skeptical qualifiers--for instance, the presence of a hypocritical evangelist. His multifaceted film follows a troubled but sincere southern Pentecostal preacher as he strives to reconcile his vindictive murder of his wife's lover with his own salvation.
The film was a labor of love that Duvall nurtured for many years, in defiance of the studios' indifference. And though his own performance as the preacher is central to the film, his ensemble cast, professionals and nonprofessionals alike, gives The Apostle most of its uncommon power, above all during its extended church sequences. Duvall's storytelling may be less masterful than his orchestration of those performances, but the film demonstrates that exposing a world and a way of life can be more relevant and fulfilling than hitting the plot points on time--the principal agenda of that 80 percent of commercial cinema that no one can remember the following week.
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Beautiful movie that was missing from the ed2k net until a short time ago. I've now downloaded this rip, non the best quality but it works :)
The Apostle (Eng).avi [701.65 Mb] 
