Cinema
Behind All Joy is the Cross: Suffering with Edith Stein and The Innocents
The Innocents (2016) joins the ranks of challenging religious films that can push you further from God, or draw you closer to him. Much like suffering itself. Some years back, I became enamored with the work…
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Masterpiece: Mirror (1975)
Tarkovsky’s deeply autobiographical film chronicles boyhood and the role of art, nature, and country in the absence of fatherhood. The film is overflowing with images that breathe: images of brother, sister, and mother amidst nature, displaying…
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Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon
Present within these brilliant, somber frames is a story about the fragility of harmony, civility, and innocence, which wither like a dying flower when decay seeps into a single family or a village. It is a…
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The Art of Hope 