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‘Silence’ is an Overwrought View of Religious Faith

Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 11, 2017 - 10:21am

Rating: 3.0/5.0

CHICAGO – For gosh sakes, someone call the Vatican and make Marty Scorsese an honorary priest. He is overtly fascinated – in this work and his other films – with the notion of religious faith, particular within his Catholic roots. He approaches the subject again in the intense “Silence.”

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