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Genre | Thriller |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled |
Contributor | Amanda Seyfried, Paul Schrader, Ethan Hawke, Cedric Kyles, Jack Binder, Michael Gaston, Van Hansis |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 48 minutes |
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Product Description
"First Reformed" is a thriller centered around Ernst Toller, a mysterious Reverend based in a small town in upstate New York. When Toller is approached by Mary, a pregnant woman struggling with a seemingly unstable, radical activist husband, he gets embroiled in a treacherous scenario that forces him to confront his troubled past and drives him to increasingly dangerous and shocking behavior.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.4 x 5.3 x 6.7 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Director : Paul Schrader
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 48 minutes
- Release date : August 21, 2018
- Actors : Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke, Cedric Kyles, Van Hansis, Michael Gaston
- Subtitles: : Spanish
- Producers : Jack Binder
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B07FGT8HTY
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,518 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Audio/Visual/Extras:
Lionsgate has done a capable job on this transfer that came from the original digital recording of the film. The film is presented in a 1.34:1 aspect ratio which means that there will be bars on both sides of the picture. While I am not a big fan of this aspect ratio, preferring wider lensed films, I don’t mind a little variety. In this case, I feel like it was Schrader’s attempt to make the film feel more intimate and humbler by limiting the vastness of the image. The effect is that the film does feel focused. The film looks pretty grey and does not utilize much color, but I personally thought it was beautifully shot overall by cinematographer Alexander Dynan. It’s a visually striking film even if some people would not consider it to be beautiful. Like other Lionsgate transfers, it is not going to let down any fans.
Audio:
The DTS-HD MA 5.1 track to the film is mainly an exercise in reserve. The film is more about discussions and silence than any grand mindblowing sound experience. That said, the ambient score by Brian Williams is sneakily effective – minimally used and works like a charm. The track is true to the original intent and sounds good.
Extras:
Optional English Subtitles
Audio Commentary – Featuring Writer/Director Paul Schrader, who always delivers good tracks, this is an illuminating track chock full of information about the film. He comments on working with Hawke, the overall theme and his candid thoughts on the film’s ending.
Discernment: Contemplating First Reformed – This short piece features interviews with Schrader, Hawke, and Cedric the Entertainer. It was interesting to know that both Hawks and Schrader had considered the priesthood. Worth your time.
Both movies focus on a pastor who begins to despair God's silence after failing to save a congregation member from committing suicide. In fact, the two movies are so similar that the issue they come to the pastor for is basically the same but a contemporary, updated version of the following: dread that the annihilation of the world is happening now. In the old film, it was China having nukes, and in the current film, it is about how man is destroying the environment, ushering in the end of the world. Both pastor's responses are similar as well, and neither is able to save the church member from killing himself.
The film's first hour and a half is almost perfect, and somehow the writer manages to completely mess up the last half hour of the film. The film's method for delivering messages to the audience is powerful, albeit conversational, which is a bore to most American audiences.
You don't have to agree with the themes in the film to appreciate a finely directed film for the most part, and one that Ethan Hawke nails in his roll as a minister of a 250 year old church that has been passed on generation to generation. His inner struggle becomes external as the film progresses, and regrettably, by the film's end, left me saying out loud, "WTF?"
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El ritmo puede resultar lento para quien no esté acostumbrado. Para mi es un recurso narrativo más y no entendería que contase todo lo que trata de otra forma que no fuera la que es.
Los temas que trata creo que cualquiera podemos sentirnos identificados con ellos y dan pie a múltiples puntos de vista. Es un filme complejo y hasta cierto punto duro, porque no maquilla lo que muestra.
Me parece bien dirigida, interpretada y con un tratamiento en su imagen que pega con la temática, apoyando a la narración.
Creo sinceramente que es de esas películas que te encantan o detestas. ¿Como saberlo? Dándole una oportunidad.