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- 2022
- MUBI
- 1 h 27 m
- 2022
- MUBI
- 1 h 27 m
Summary An only child’s meditative, impressionistic account of an American family’s rise and fall over twenty years.
Directed By: Ricky D'Ambrose
Written By: Ricky D'Ambrose
- 2022
- MUBI
- 1 h 27 m
- 2022
- MUBI
- 1 h 27 m
The Cathedral
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Summary An only child’s meditative, impressionistic account of an American family’s rise and fall over twenty years.
Directed By: Ricky D'Ambrose
Written By: Ricky D'Ambrose
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
82
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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D’Ambrose’s drama is attuned to how much sensitive kids keep inside, watching and holding their breath while the adults convince themselves they’re not making a mess of things.
What distinguishes Jesse’s story is the striking way that the writer-director Ricky D’Ambrose tells it — its ellipses, voice-over, visual precision and an emotional reserve that can feel like clinical detachment but is more rightly described as an aesthetic.
The Cathedral marries form to content in a striking way.
The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but it’s also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family’s intolerances.
It’s an ambitious undertaking for an 87-minute film, and while this lofty aim can result in a few passages striking a bit broad, one comes away admiring D’Ambrose’s meticulously committed approach to storytelling.
With the help of blankly matter-of-fact yet omniscient voice-over narration (spoken by Madeleine James), D’Ambrose achieves the span and the depth of a cinematic bildungsroman in shards of experience and epigrammatic flickers.
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Production Company
Ravenser Odd
Release Date Sep 2, 2022
Duration 1 h 27 m
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Website
http://www.thecathedralfilm.com/
Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
