First Reformed

First Reformed

  • Director: Paul Schrader
  • Countries of origin: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
  • Language: English
  • Release date: May 18, 2018
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Витоки Реформатства
  • "First Reformed" is a thriller directed by Paul Schrader and co-starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried . The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2017 .
    The film tells the story of a former military priest who lost his son in the war and a pregnant woman Mary who is struggling with pain   .

    Details

    • Release date May 18, 2018
    • Filming locations Zion Episcopal Church, Douglaston, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Killer Films, Omeira Studio Partners, Fibonacci Films

    Box office

    Budget

    $3,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $3,448,256

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $97,562

    Gross worldwide

    $3,862,498

    Movie reviews

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    • By Emmie 2022-03-27 09:01:13

      Why put the topic of religion and environmental protection together?

      Carrying out the paradox of the whole film, "A life without despair is a life without hope", the director did not infect the audience with sensationalism, but asked calm questions for us to figure out.

      The director placed the time bomb of environmental issues on the doorstep of religion.

      All religious schools to this day have never taken environmental protection seriously. Global warming and environmental damage are indisputable facts, and all the...

    • By Carli 2022-03-26 09:01:09

      The power of slow movies

      The first time I heard the concept of "long shot" was when I was in my third year of high school. At that time, our head teacher, who was also a Chinese teacher, suddenly mentioned his five favorite movies at the end of a class. There seems to be one by Jia Zhangke, and I still remember his fascination with the "long-shot" beauty of that movie when he mentioned it. At that time, although I also watched movies, I was afraid that none of them could help me understand what a "long shot" is, so...

    • By Demario 2022-03-26 09:01:09

      Some Chinese people can't understand it because you are Chinese

      Watching the cold war in curzon, the pre-screening plus q&a, the host will talk in advance, and the two films that will be shown in curzon at the same time are highly recommended

      one is summer 1993 and the other is taxi driver first reformed directed by the writer writer and praising filmmaking and hawker's performance

      I didn't expect to pay attention

      After reading the short review, I found the keyword "environmental protection". I doubt that the director would make such a...

    • By Zechariah 2022-03-26 09:01:09

      The debate between rationality and morality, a kind of pleasure of counting money for human traffickers arises spontaneously.

      First of all, I am not a religious person, but I am interested in religious movies. For example, the domestic religious themes of Lin Zhengying and Wu Ma, and the Buddhist themes of Wu Chengen. I don't see many Christian-themed movies, but I also know about The Exorcist, Crazy Monastery and God's Crazy series. Therefore, I downloaded the movie First Reformed with joy and hid in the secret room to watch it myself.

      To be honest, I think the role of [Priest] played by Ethan Hawke can...

    • By Flo 2022-03-26 09:01:09

      Faith and Reality

      Behind the prosperity are discarded plastic tires, incinerated garbage, and birds full of garbage in their stomachs... Snow mountains, forests, and oceans are so beautiful, who knows the devastated and shocking scene? Pastor Toller said, "The US Congress still denies climate change. "We pollute the environment and wait for God to clean it up. We sin and wait for God's forgiveness. I don't think this is the will of the apostles." It is important to have faith, but blindly following wrong...

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    • By Katlyn 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      Look, people have, throughout history, have woken up in the dead of the night, confronted by blackness. The sense that our lives are without meaning. Men's great achievements have brought him to the place where life as we know it may cease in the foreseeable future. But the blackness, it's not. Whatever despair you feel about bringing a child into this world cannot equal the despair of taking a child from...

    • By Gaylord 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      The atmosphere is very good, minimalist and symmetrical, serious and depressing, retro and dignified. It's a love story at the...

    • By Frances 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      The babbling Christian-Environmentalist Apocalypse. There are good paragraphs, and the overall atmosphere is also in place: despair and redemption in the end of the world. The plot is simple, the superposition of several connotations of "doomsday", and the expression is not a big problem - as a movie, it is really lackluster and boring. The narrative borrows too much from lines and narration, and is filled with religious, political and historical symbols that keep people out of reach, and there...

    • By Valentina 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      It's not convincing enough to start, inherit and turn, and it's a bit tricky, otherwise it would be quite...

    • By Dejah 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      ending wtf? I want to lose one star because of the ending. In order not to fall into a cliché, I forcibly broke...

    Movie plot

    Toller ( Ethan Hawke ) lived a lonely life in upstate New York. He used to be a chaplain with the army. The shadow of that experience has been hanging over him. When the red light came on his marriage and career, He chose the current position. Part of Toller’s temper and character stems from his work. He is responsible for a very small Dutch Reformed church. He only presides over a small number of believers every day, and spends the...
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    Judging from the title of "First Reformed", the movie is almost absurd. There are moments in the film that will remind the audience of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's "Winter Light", a pastor in a small remote place suffering for his inability to save the soul of the world. Director Paul Schrader uses a more solemn and gloomy style, which is more impactful than his previous two more lively works "Light Passes" and "Dog Bites". "First...
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    Movie quotes

    • Reverend Joel Jeffers: We tend to think that anxiety and worry are simply an indication of how wise we are, yet it is a much better indication of how wicked we are. Fretting arises from our determination to have our own way.

    • Reverend Ernst Toller: Why do we deny ourselves?

    • Reverend Ernst Toller: Every act of preservation is an act of creation. Everything preserved renews creation. It's how we participate in creation.