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- 2016
- Unrated
- Breaking Glass Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
- 2016
- Unrated
- Breaking Glass Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
Summary An existential comedy about a man (Alvaro Ogalla) trying to make himself an apostate of the Catholic Church.
Directed By: Federico Veiroj
Written By: Gonzalo Delgado, Álvaro Ogalla, Nicolás Saad, Federico Veiroj
- 2016
- Unrated
- Breaking Glass Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
- 2016
- Unrated
- Breaking Glass Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
The Apostate
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Summary An existential comedy about a man (Alvaro Ogalla) trying to make himself an apostate of the Catholic Church.
Directed By: Federico Veiroj
Written By: Gonzalo Delgado, Álvaro Ogalla, Nicolás Saad, Federico Veiroj
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
66
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Despite his clear interest in matters philosophical, Veiroj has a built-in anti-pomp detector and The Apostate, with its winsomely shambling central character, is always deft, engaging and teeming with ideas.
It’s a movie that ultimately may mean more to those raised in heavily Catholic cultures, but it has an engaging prickliness as a satiric peek into the life of a brooding idealist.
Like the film, the soundtrack doesn’t quite know where it’s going, but it takes us on a curious and often engaging stroll.
Ogalla makes it happen: Bedroom-eyed and shaggy, looking every inch like a reincarnation of dead-too-soon ‘70s French star Patrick Dewaere but without the haywire intensity, he's an amiable spectacle.
The Apostate finds humor in unusual images or situations, few resounding with lasting impact.
Gonzalo’s dalliances add up to precious little, but Veiroj’s comic tone finds purchase in his absurd run-ins with the bishop and a church so unwilling to lose a member from the rolls that they’ll stick him in a bureaucratic roundabout until he gives up.
The Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj’s leisurely comedy-drama The Apostate has its charms, though the story (and its hero) could benefit from a tarter approach.
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Production Company
Banco Republica,
Cinekdoque - Federico Veiroj,
FI - Fondos de Incentivo Cultural,
Ferdydurke,
Fona Uruguay,
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA),
La Vie Est Belle Films Associés,
Local Films,
Montevideo Socio Audiovisual,
Île de France Film
Release Date Sep 9, 2016
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
ASECAN
• 2 Nominations
Hamburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
