Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Hearing confessions
In today's film, a Bishop goes to a prison to hear confessions from prisoners on death row.
What he finds is, rather, a kangaroo court set up to try the Bishop's murder of a young man while in seminary.
The fall guy is the director of the play. His prison friends, the cast.
On a tight set, the play unfolds. Only the prisoners are present. A sympathetic guard stands by.
It is not clear what will happen. The men recreate the scenes from the two men. The prisoner and the bishop.
At the end, the Bishop learns his fate.
Very melodramatic. Very good.
The two young men who play the young lovers are superb.
Of course the play within a play opens up and we are outside, back then and in the time that all the events occurred.
Very good. I bought the DVD. A 5 out of Netflix5.
