We are joined by Celia Nicholls, another former Warwick student, for a discussion of Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, a careful drama following a Protestant minster’s personal crises and relationships with his parishioners and community. Comparisons with Robert Bresson, informed by Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film, are drawn; we consider how trite or meaningful we find the film’s moral questions; and we pick apart the film’s flat aesthetic and occasional flights of fancy.
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With José Arroyo of First Impressions and Michael Glass of Writing About Film.
Eavesdropping at the Movies 
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