A Year in the Death of Jack Richards (2005)

Directed by

B. P. Paquette

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A theology professor may have created a cult that worships him for a year before planning to kill him for atonement. The film follows him as he becomes entangled with believers who see his death as a sacrifice.

ambiguouscerebralslow-burnunsettlingtensemetaphysicalpsychologically probingdarkly spiritual

What happens

A Year in the Death of Jack Richards is a 2004 Canadian psychological drama film featuring Vlasta Vrána as the title character, a professor of theology, who may or may not have made himself the target of a supposed cult, whose members then worship him for a year so that they may kill him as an atonement for their sins. An English-language feature film shot and set in Montreal, it is the debut feature film from Canadian director B. P. Paquette, and also features in supporting roles Micheline Lanctôt, Harry Hill, and Darryl Hunter. Presented at numerous film festivals in countries from around the world, and honoured with prizes and accolades, A Year in the Death of Jack Richards absolutely polarized critics when it was released in commercial theatres. A Year in the Death of Jack Richards is the first panel in Paquette's triptych on the psychology of romantic love, followed by The Woman of Ahhs: A Self-Portrait by Victoria Fleming (2008), and The Anonymous Rudy S. (2016). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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