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First Reformed

Director: Paul Schrader, 2018, USA, 108 mins, Cert: 15

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Mon 10 September 2018 // 20:00
Tue 11 September 2018 // 20:00 *

Tickets: £5 (full) / £4 (concession / * cheap night)

Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried star in writer-director Paul Schrader’s (Taxi DriverAmerican Gigolo) gripping new thriller about a solitary man’s crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.

Reverend Ernst Toller (Hawke) is a parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is a tourist attraction whose congregation is dwindling, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence.