Imagine if someone made a film about the Irish fishing industry in crisis and tried to convince the audience that this would affect the world's fishing industries? That would be daft. Yet this movie tries to make out that because there is a crisis in the Irish Catholic church that this will affect the same church right across the globe! So what is this crisis? The priests want to get married. Two young trainees get kicked out for breaking the rules. It's the old vs the new. As Dave McSavage might say: 'if you want to get married then don't become a fuc*ing priest!' The rest of the movie is awful: handheld camera in one scene, camera moving around actors while they stand still in the next scene, followed by a self-conscious slow zoom!Even Gay Byrne doesn't convince playing himself! Strange movie that's out on DVD everywhere but no-one mentions it with regard to Irish cinema. Maybe because it got made in Britain? Also, any director who uses a handheld longshot of a car approaching in the distance is just a bad filmmaker!
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