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  • Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
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  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Twenty-two-year-old Thomas can’t kick his drug habit. His last chance is a community of young men from different countries and social backgrounds who also want to overcome their addictions and are living together in a remote house in the French mountains. Supervised by a Catholic priest, their days revolve around regular prayer, solidari...

Directed By: Cédric Kahn

Written By: Samuel Doux, Fanny Burdino, Aude Walker, Cédric Kahn

  • Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
  • 1 h 47 m
  • Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
  • 1 h 47 m

The Prayer

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
72
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Summary Twenty-two-year-old Thomas can’t kick his drug habit. His last chance is a community of young men from different countries and social backgrounds who also want to overcome their addictions and are living together in a remote house in the French mountains. Supervised by a Catholic priest, their days revolve around regular prayer, solidari...

Directed By: Cédric Kahn

Written By: Samuel Doux, Fanny Burdino, Aude Walker, Cédric Kahn

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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80
Agnostically observant in its approach to spiritual matters, but more devout in its quiet celebration of human compassion, this film’s most complicated lines of inquiry largely play out on the young, unformed face of its protagonist Thomas — impressively played by breakthrough star Anthony Bajon.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
80
Kahn never offers an easy way out for Thomas, even if the finale tends to wrap things up in ways that seem a little too conclusive. But his film mostly explores, with steadfastness and moments of raw emotion, the crude uphill battle faced by junkies on the path to recovery.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
75
For the most part, Kahn’s latest effort is a tenderly observed portrait of the transformative power of religion, even if it occasionally fails to convince.
By Bradley Warren FULL REVIEW
60
Always watchable but not transcendent, Cedric Kahn’s character study builds its portrait via landscape, work, prayer and friendship.
By Lisa Nesselson FULL REVIEW
60
Kahn floats the idea that it’s not simply God who has enraptured Thomas’ soul, but his desire to exist within a society that accepts him. Sadly the mechanical aspects of the film’s plotting mean these ideas never manage to bubble to the surface
By Patrick Gamble FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films du Worso, Arte France Cinéma, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Tropdebonheur Productions, Versus Production, Canal+, Ciné+, ARTE, Le Pacte, Cinécap, Cofinova 13, Indéfilms 5, Cinémage 11, Cinéventure 2, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Inver Invest, Meñakoz Films
Duration 1 h 47 m
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Website https://le-pacte.com/international/film/the-prayer
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Film by the Sea International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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