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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 9781404926004 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1404926003 Item Dimensions: Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: 00467 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: April 22, 2003 Running Time: 119 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Editorial Review: Product Description: Stars Gael Garcia (Amores Perros) as the title character. He's a newly ordained priest sent to work in a small church community in Mexico by the Bishop. He arrives wide eyed and full of optimism hoping to serve God and his parish however he quickly butts heads with the elder priest in charge Father Benito. Benito is known to accept drug money from the local drug lord in order to subsidise the construction of a new hospital and in addition is carrying on an affair with a local woman. To complicate matters father Amaro soon finds himself in a love affair with the young Sunday school teacher. After a newspaper report linking the drug lords with the Church is published Father Amaro is then trying to cover up and mend the public relations fiasco. Amaro has also been asked by the Bishop to reign in the renegade priest who has affiliations with guerrilla soldiers. Needless to say moral dilemmas abound and Father Amaro's idealism is put to the test by personal political and church pressures.System Requirements:Running Time: 119 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: R UPC: 043396004672 Manufacturer No: 00467 Amazon.com: This controversial film follows a handsome young priest, Padre Amaro (played by Gael Garcia Bernal from Y Tu Mamá También and Amores Perros), who arrives in a small town and finds himself surrounded by hypocrisy and corruption--and also finds himself tempted by a beautiful young woman who confesses that when she "touches herself," she thinks of Jesus. What makes El Crimen del Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro) particularly effective is that Amaro is no innocent--he skillfully forces a newspaper publisher to retract a scandalous story about the Church and is willing to take extreme steps to preserve his career. Some of the movie's harsher digs at the Catholic Church have provoked accusations of prejudice; but though Padre Amaro portrays a world in which no one's hands are clean, it also finds redeeming qualities in every character. A complex, completely engrossing movie. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - amateurishAfter being pleased with "Motorcycle Diaries", I thought I would check out more of Gael Garcia Bernal's work. This movie was a huge disappointment. It was so amateurish that the darker aspects seemed silly, and the ending that could have been poignantly tragic, seemed sordid and pointless. As a practing Catholic myself, I was curious to see what the Mexican Church found so scandalous about this movie. At the end of the movie, I was left thinking that philosophical differences with the Church ... Read More Rating: - Great movieI saw the movie and although I realize things happens like this, I still could not accept it. Good movie, recommend to see. Rating:  - Sins Of The FleshFather Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a young priest sent to work in the small, rural town of Los Reyes, Mexico. Father Amaro is idealistic at first. But soon discovers that his senior priest, Father Benito, has an ongoing affair with a local woman named Sanjuanera and that he is also laundering drug money for some murderous narco-traffickers in order to raise funds to build a "First World quality" hospital. Soon Father Amaro finds himself involved in his own forbidden love affair with ... Read More Rating: - temptationthis is an important movie about the nature of temptation and the complications of living a double life.. It is also an interesting look into hypocracy.. All of the characters are involved in some dirty business.. and this leads to a tragic outcome that will leave us lost in thought at the end.. Very captivating.. Rating: - Mexico's official entry for this year's Foreign Film Oscar nomination consideration...For many priests, celibacy is a true vocation which liberates them... For others, it is a lifelong struggle... If celibacy was made voluntary, not only would many priests be happier, but the Church would be richer... Above all, it might decide the only way to restore the numbers of the priesthood, and that seems to me not a bad idea... As I understand, a Catholic priest must clearly know that he belongs body and soul, with all that he is, to the church, to her task, to her mission, her work, ... Read More |
