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Conspiracy of Silence (2003) 6.2
A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney, a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin, a ... See full summary » Director:John DeeryWriter:John Deery |
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Fr. Jack Dowling
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Annie McLaughlin
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Jonathan Forbes | ... |
Daniel McLaughlin
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Rector Cathal
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Fr. Joseph Ennis
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David Foley
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Niall
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Father Murphy
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Liz Foley
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Sean
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Robbie
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Mrs. McDermott
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Mary McLaughlin
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A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney, a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin, a young trainee priest from a nearby seminary, on the grounds that he was open to the sexual advances of a male colleague. A local journalist, David Foley, is convinced that Sweeney's death and Daniel's expulsion are linked. Desperate to clear his good name and be re-instated, Daniel agrees to talk to Foley. As the story gathers momentum, the Church closes ranks. Written by http://www.beyond.com.au/film/catalogue/film_catalogue/5.html#conspiracy_of_silence
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Sex. Lies. Murder... All In The Name Of God...Genres:
DramaParents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 January 2006 (Mexico) See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$2,598 (USA) (3 December 2004)Gross:
$2,598 (USA) (3 December 2004)Company Credits
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Watched this film in 2010 on DVD on a rainy Friday evening in October - so this was ideal although sombre entertainment.
The film has a reasonably fast pace, a simple story line - a little preachy in its anti-celibacy message, but overall worthwhile, although the ending is a bit implausible.
It seems somewhat unrealistic that a seminary in today's Ireland would still exist with more than half a dozen trainees, and hard to believe that with such low numbers that they would so quickly expel a trainee without evidence. The film was made in 2003 before the onslaught of the fallout of the Catholic-Church-Protects-Paedophiles scandals, and to see the movie again in the knowledge of such events gives an added frisson - "the church is killing itself from the inside" is one of the quotes from the film.
The storyline involves celibate priests that are gay - it could just as easily have portrayed priests or bishops that have one or more children
- but perhaps the movie had an agenda that was more than just
anti-celibacy but also against the anti-gay homophobic nature of the roman-catholic hierarchy.The film shows a statistic about 100,000 priests having quit because of the celibacy rule - but does'not show the numbers of priests in non-catholic Christian traditions who can marry but still leave their ministries anyway.
For a non-Irish audience some of the accents are difficult, and my DVD did not have a sub-title track for some reason.
A worthy film, if a little flawed, hope to see more from this director.