Wise Blood (1979)

Directed by

John Huston

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 105 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A war veteran returns home and starts preaching his own version of a church that denies Christ. He clashes with other preachers and struggles with his own beliefs in a small Southern town.

offbeatdarkly comicbleakslow-burnunsettlingquirkysatiricalatmospheric

What happens

Wise Blood is a 1979 black comedy drama film directed by John Huston, based on Flannery O'Connor's 1952 Southern Gothic novel of the same name. It stars Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, Amy Wright and Mary Nell Santacroce. The film follows the lives of war veteran preacher Hazel "Haze" Motes (Dourif) who preaches an atheistic "Church of Truth Without Christ." The film premiered at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where it received a mixed reception. The film has since been reevaluated as one of Huston’s best films and a masterful adaptation of O’Connor’s writing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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