The Cathedral

Name: The Cathedral
Genre: Drama
Released: September 2, 2022
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Brian d'Arcy James, Cynthia Mace, Geraldine Singer, Gorman Ruggiero, Kyle Minshew

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Front Row Filmed Entertainment | Release Date: September 2, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Brian d'Arcy James, Cynthia Mace, Geraldine Singer, Gorman Ruggiero, Kyle Minshew, Linnea Gregg, Madeline Hudelson, Mark Zeisler, Monica Barbaro, Robert Levey II, Siena Marino, Steven Alonte, William Bednar-Carter, William Day

Summary: An only child’s meditative, impressionistic account of an American family’s rise and fall over twenty years.

Director: Ricky D'Ambrose

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Sheri Linden

Sep 26, 2022

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. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Sep 1, 2022

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. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

May 4, 2022

The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but it’s also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family’s intolerances. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Sep 2, 2022

The Cathedral marries form to content in a striking way. Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Raup

May 4, 2022

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. Read full review

Richard Brody

Sep 1, 2022

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. Read full review

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