No, we are not dealing with a film -and a title- that exploits and uses two words -exorcist and Pope-. The Pope’s Exorcist existed, it was Father Gabriele Amorth, who served for 30 years in the Vatican and who, here embodied by Russell Croweride a scooter.
So to movies that focus on performing exorcisms on defenseless individuals, who for some strange reason have been chosen by some demon – because if we’ve learned anything over the years from watching exorcism movies, it’s that these fallen angels are many, not a lone .-, here is added the actor for which he won an Oscar Gladiator.
And that he’d never, ever starred in a horror movie.
Well, a little terror, for the lazy, made the New Zealander. It’s not the case.
Crowe gives Father Gabriel something like a biker priest desecration. Not only for the motorbike – he rarely travels from Rome to Spain on a motorbike, when the Pope commissions him to perform an exorcism, but hey, here’s what you see – but because Gabriele jokes with the nuns, to whom he says “Cuckoo”. , and even with some demons.
In short, he is a priest like a village priest, but he knows everything.
Almost.
70,000 exorcisms
After the first exorcism we see, of the 70,000 he practiced – he must have practiced more than one on various demoniacs, because sometimes it cost them more than others -, the Pope John Paul II Does the job we were talking about. To John Paul II, the whole world loves you, the one who came to Argentina at the time of the Malvinas, and who does Franco Nero with a beard. Remember Pope John Paul II with his hair in his face? A licence, they tell you.
Gabriele arrives in that Spanish town. In an old abbey, a young man (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, in his first performance) is possessed. The place had been abandoned for years, and Henry’s mother went there after her husband’s death, to renovate it and sell her property.
Ah, Henry hasn’t said a word since his father died.
They will see, and hear, the disgusting things he says to Gabriele, his mother, his sister and the Hispanic priest whom Daniel Zovatto makes up.
The twist, without spoilers, is a certain kept secret over there.
Julius Avery, who had directed the tremendous Operation Overlordabout American soldiers who stumbled upon “something” creepy on D-Day in WWII, it packs its fair share of scares, as long as you haven’t seen too many exorcist movies.
Hearing Crowe speak Italian is a bit strange, but you get used to it. And I suppose that’s much better than hearing it like this, rather than in the Spanish dubbed copies, where it is always given in some theaters. Things of the devil.
“The Pope’s Exorcist”
Terror. US/UK/Spain, 2023. Original title: “The Pope’s Exorcist”. 103′, SA 16. From: Julius Avery. With: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe, Franco Nero, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Laurel Marsden. Rooms: Cinépolis Recoleta and Pilar, Cinemark Caballito, Belgrano showcase.
Source: Clarin
