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Movie poster for Calvary depicting a man dressed as a priest in front of the ocean

The Ploughshares Round-Down: The Calvary Film and the Purpose of Art

ByTasha Golden

“[T]he barrier between one’s self and one’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed. There are so many things we would rather not know!— James Baldwin John Michael McDonagh’s film Calvary begins with priest Father James (played by Brendan Gleeson) preparing to hear an unseen confessor. The confessor reveals that as a child, he was repeatedly raped by…