RIPON FILM SOCIETY

Doubt

In a Catholic Church in the Bronx in 1964 the new cheerfully modern and popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is on a collision course with an austere traditionalist nun Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep).

Flynn is a kindly man, popular with his congregation.

But Sister Aloysius is convinced he is taking sexual advantage of children and is determined to bring him down.

“…a provocative, pared-down work from a Pulitzer-prizewinning play. … it has four outstanding performances and marvellous work by British cinematographer Roger Deakins”.