The Club
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated
men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former
priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of
their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of
punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of
all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to
atone for their wrongdoings. Their fragile stability is disrupted by the
arrival of an emissary from the Vatican who seeks to understand the
effects of their isolation, and a newly-disgraced housemate. Both bring
with them the outside world from which the men have long been removed,
and the secrets they had thought deeply buried. THE CLUB is acclaimed
director Pablo Larraín’s taut, blackly comic commentary on individual
responsibility, organized religion and the combustible combination of
the two.
Director(s)
Pablo LarraínCast
Alfredo CastroRoberto Farías
Antonia Zegers
"It’s a terrifically smart film…crucial, thrilling and disturbing." DAVE CALHOUN, TIME OUT LONDON
"It’s a surprising and often thought-provoking effort from a filmmaker who has never chosen to take the simple path, confirming Larrain as one of the more genuine talents working in cinema today." JORDAN MINTZER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"A bold, blunt, yet clinically intelligent film ... it's all at once a gripping thriller, an incendiary social critique and a mordant moral fable." JESSICA KIANG, THE PLAYLIST