Calvary (2014): ****

A parishioner tells Father James (Brendan Gleeson) in the confession booth that he is going to kill him, in vengeance for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child from another, now deceased, priest. Father James has until next Sunday to put his affairs into order, before his death sentence at the beach. An opportunity for reconciliation appears to Father James when his daughter Fiona (Kelly Reilly) visits him after a suicide attempt, who felt abandoned when her father went to join the clergy after her mother died. Despite the threat against his life, Father James decides to carry on trying to help his local congregation, including the local butcher Jack (Chris O’Dowd), his adulterous wife Veronica (Orla O’Rourke), her boyfriend Simon (Isaach de Bankolé), the foppish millionaire Michael Fitzgerald (Dylan Moore) and the embittered young man Milo (Killian Scott) to name some.

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