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First Reformed (2017) – The outline of Paul Schr

First Reformed (2017) – The outline of Paul Schrader's film – a solitary obsessive perceives the world's rot so keenly that he feels called to purify it with an act of righteous violence – is very similar to that of his screenplay for Taxi Driver, but as director his visual strategy is very different to Martin Scorsese's in that movie. I'm not usually a fan of boxy, constricted aspect ratios or a motionless camera as means of communicating stuck lives – it's monotonous and not very imaginative – but Schrader uses them in interesting ways. At the outset the stillness and the tight framing capture individuals dwarfed by the institution for which they work; when the priest played by Ethan Hawke begins to emerge from his stupor in the company of his parishioner Mary (Amanda Seyfried, proving once again her gift for luminous ordinariness) the camera starts to move, first as a stirring of life, then in an increasingly frantic descontrol that makes his earlier depressed paralysis seem like a kind of safety. When the reverend arrives at his own Taxi Driver moment – cruising the sordid nighttime streets, rehearsing his role as holy warrior – it registers differently, as a descent, because it is not his natural element. The movie is a fascinating portrait of contemporary Christianity as well, exploring the contrasts between the modern superchurch with its gleaming headquarters, mixed congregation and social outreach program and the old tourist church that Hawke presides over, with its tiny white congregation, more conservator than priest, an employee of the rich modern Christians. You can feel Schrader's curiosity and his effort to see things as they are (it's also the rare movie to seriously consider the environmental disaster that we're living through): his movie has something rare and potent – a point of view. ***½

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