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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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