The Club — U.S. Trailer

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added: Tue, Dec 15th '15

Acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain follows up his Oscar-nominated '80s-set political drama "NO" with the religious-tinged thriller "The Club."

The Spanish-language drama, which won a Grand Jury Prize at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, centers on a group of exiled priests who have been ordered to live together in a secluded house near the ocean, where they must do penance until their sins are purged. Their faith and fortitude are tested when an enigmatic emissary from Vatican suddenly arrives and starts dredging up the priests' shameful past.

"The Club," which is Chile's official entry for the foreign-language Oscar category and was recently nominated for a Golden Globe, stars Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Antonia Zegers, Roberto Farias, and Marcel Alonso.

The film will be getting a stateside release in February, opening first in New York on Feb. 5 and Los Angeles on Feb. 12. Watch the film's U.S. trailer, above.

synopsis:
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

Their fragile stability is disrupted by the arrival of an emissary from the Vatican who seeks to understand the effects of their isolation, and a newly-disgraced housemate. Both bring with them the outside world from which the men have long been removed, and the secrets they had thought deeply buried. The Club is acclaimed director Pablo Larraín’s taut, blackly comic commentary on individual responsibility, organized religion and the combustible combination of the two.

 

directed by   Pablo Larrain

starring   Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Antonia Zegers, Roberto Farias, Marcel Alonso.

release date   February 5, 2016 (NY), February 12, 2016 (LA) -- Other cities to follow