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The Cathedral

2021

Ricky D'Ambrose

Monica Barbaro, Brian d'Arcy James, Cynthia Mace, Geraldine Singer ...

6.0

164

Drama An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.

	Author	Review
Canada	Dustin Chang Screen Anarchy	"D'Ambrose [is] one of the major American voices in indie cinema, in tune with other contemporary filmmakers in the global indie scene embracing minimalist aesthetics with a keen observational eye on the world we live in"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"D'Ambrose clearly has a confident, fascinating voice as a filmmaker, making a family drama that plays out almost like a memory"	POS
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"A deeply humanist film, but it's also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family's intolerances (...) D'Ambrose allows the past to feel intensely present and alive in its sense of openness and uncertainty (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jordan Raup The Film Stage	"Defining memories of this experience are inconsequential in the moment and the film leaves marks that might only protrude as time marches forward and youth is a distant past"	NEU
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"[It] marries form to content in a striking way (...) The distant style and close point-of-view allows us to lean in, to empathize on a different level (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Deadline	"D'Ambrose has the technique and narrative instincts down"	POS
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"D’Ambrose’s drama is attuned to how much sensitive kids keep inside, watching and holding their breath while the adults convince themselves they’re not making a mess of things."	POS

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