Il dubbio

Suspicions flare as religion meets the real world in the film version starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams

"Doubt" is a film with many fine elements, but its director, John Patrick Shanley, doesn't seem to trust them. Which is rather odd, because it was Shanley who wrote both the script and the play on which it's based.
That play, gripping enough to win four Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize and attract film stars such as Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, is set in the pivotal year of 1964 in St. Nicholas, a Catholic church and school in the Bronx. It details a conflict between the church's Father Flynn (Hoffman) and the school's principal, Sister Aloysius (Streep), about the direction of the Catholic faith in general and the fate of one 12-year-old altar boy in particular. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4744 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 12 dicembre 2008