The Crime of Padre Amaro

Name: The Crime of Padre Amaro
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 15, 2002
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Ana Claudia Talancón, Gael García Bernal, Sancho Gracia

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Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: November 15, 2002 | R

Starring: Ana Claudia Talancón, Gael García Bernal, Sancho Gracia

Summary: The scandalous story of a young priest, Father Amaro (Gael García Bernal), assigned to a church in a small village in remote Mexico, who falls in love with a teenage girl, Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancón), who then becomes pregnant with his baby, and asks for his help in getting an abortion.

Director: Carlos Carrera

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 118 min

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David Sterritt

Excellent acting, intelligent screenwriting, and dynamic filmmaking give this Mexican production a forceful emotional and intellectual charge. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

Carrera's direct, unadorned style has none of the searing imagery or cinematic imagination of "Y Tu Mama," but it bristles with passion, anger and a palpable sense of betrayal. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Not an indictment of the Catholic Church as a whole, but a thought-provoking look at what can happen when decent individuals are seduced by the power of their position. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Carrera's style is hard-hitting, lucid and technically superior (if unimaginative). El Crimen del Padre Amaro eventually moves and stirs you, even if it often resembles those steamy Mexican TV dramas/soap operas called telenovelas. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

The remarkable things about the new film, adapted by Vicente Leñero and directed by Carlos Carrera, are how smoothly it has been transposed to today's Mexico and how far good acting and skillful directing have gone toward tempering those melodramatic roots. Read full review

Keith Phipps

However much the film may mirror the truth, dramatically it feels like a cheat. It omits the human spark that would make it work as a film, rather than a collection of dramatized issues. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Father Amaro comes off as another pedophile in a frock. You'd have to hose this guy down if he were driving a school bus. Read full review

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AlmaL.

Nov 5, 2005

Very Good!

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FrankO.

Feb 2, 2006

Felt like two different movies; first half being local politics and the church; 2nd half the relationship between Father Amaro and Ana character. Publicity, trailer and DVD description misleading about the overriding theme of story.

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IvonaPoyntz

Nov 15, 2011

Gael Bernan simply fails to convince: a committed priest who submits to corruption without the requisite soul searching to justify his chosen path: had we seen some internal turmoil over his choices, this film would have been first rate

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