Atto di fede

Dreary real-life 'resurrection' drama

Here is another illustration of how the faith-based drama has pushed into cinemas material indistinguishable from vast swathes of the afternoon TV schedule. A true-life miracle has been sourced from Judith Smith's memoir: the resurrection of the author's adopted Guatemalan son John, declared clinically dead after falling through the ice on Lake St Louis in January 2015. Yet it is presented with no mystery and scant wonder; instead, we get two hours of flatly professional procedural. Scene by scene, life-or-death reality is reduced to Sunday-school parable. [...]

di Mike McCahill, articolo completo (1989 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Guardian 17 maggio 2019