Directed by Paul Schrader
In his first big-budget, studio-distributed film since Cat People, a prequel to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973), filmmaker Paul Schrader puts his own stamp on the character of Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård). With allusions to The Searchers, Schrader’s Merrin is a man whose confrontations with evil, here in the aftermath of WWII, have cast him adrift from his faith and community. Initially shelved by Morgan Creek which expected more gore and less disquisitions on God, Dominion proves an unsettling take on the genre.
Warner Bros. Producer: James G. Robinson. Screenwriter: William Wisher, Caleb Carr. Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro. Editor: Tim Silano. Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown.
35mm, color, 117 min.
Watch the trailer below.
