Written & directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Ethan Hawke & Amanda Seyfried.
Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay, First Reformed sees the pastor of a small church in upstate New York spiral out of control, after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environment activist and his pregnant wife.
Paul Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ and Bringing Out the Dead.
This event takes place at The Tin Tabernacle, 4 Portland Road, Hythe, CT21 6EG.
Paul Schrader will be in conversation in a live link-up at Folkestone Quarterhouse on Monday 18 November at 6pm. Click here for more info.
"This mesmerizing drama of a pastor's crisis of faith feels like the movie Paul Schrader was put on this planet to make." - Washington Post
"In this age of numbing Hollywood formula, ‘First Reformed’ offers a kind of salvation - it's a movie that matters." - Rolling Stone
"First Reformed asks us to take another look at what we think we know about politics, religion and other things we like to argue about, and asks nothing more than our quiet attention." - New York Times
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