Apostasy (2017)
Country: GB
Technical: col/1.50:1 95m
Director: Daniel Kokotajlo
Cast: Siobhan Finneran, Bronwyn James, Sacha Parkinson
Synopsis:
A girl grows up in a Jehovah�s Witness community with the guilt of a transfusion undergone in infancy, and the ever-present threat her anaemia may return. Meanwhile her elder sister experiences a crisis of faith.
Review:
This extremely understated and sensitively framed film might have been an exposé of the Jehovah�s theocracy, but is careful not to take easy potshots. The director himself grew up in a Manchester congregation like the one depicted, and the proximity might have led him to over-circumspection. We are left with impressive performances from the girls and artful shallow focus compositions, but little in the way of dramatic heft.
Country: GB
Technical: col/1.50:1 95m
Director: Daniel Kokotajlo
Cast: Siobhan Finneran, Bronwyn James, Sacha Parkinson
Synopsis:
A girl grows up in a Jehovah�s Witness community with the guilt of a transfusion undergone in infancy, and the ever-present threat her anaemia may return. Meanwhile her elder sister experiences a crisis of faith.
Review:
This extremely understated and sensitively framed film might have been an exposé of the Jehovah�s theocracy, but is careful not to take easy potshots. The director himself grew up in a Manchester congregation like the one depicted, and the proximity might have led him to over-circumspection. We are left with impressive performances from the girls and artful shallow focus compositions, but little in the way of dramatic heft.
Country: GB
Technical: col/1.50:1 95m
Director: Daniel Kokotajlo
Cast: Siobhan Finneran, Bronwyn James, Sacha Parkinson
Synopsis:
A girl grows up in a Jehovah�s Witness community with the guilt of a transfusion undergone in infancy, and the ever-present threat her anaemia may return. Meanwhile her elder sister experiences a crisis of faith.
Review:
This extremely understated and sensitively framed film might have been an exposé of the Jehovah�s theocracy, but is careful not to take easy potshots. The director himself grew up in a Manchester congregation like the one depicted, and the proximity might have led him to over-circumspection. We are left with impressive performances from the girls and artful shallow focus compositions, but little in the way of dramatic heft.