Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own torments until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. 

This celebrated comeback from writer/director Paul Schrader, one of American cinema’s greatest artist-scholars, is both a complex reworking Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light (being shown by QFS on March 24^th), and an Oscar-nominated new classic that stands impressively on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCF5Y8dQpR4