The Mission (1986)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 128m
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Synopsis:
The priest of a Jesuit mission in South America converts a slave hunter and attempts to protect his native charges from the predations of the Portuguese, who have purchased the colony from the Spanish over their heads.
Review:
Joffe's film, the one plum from the basket that sank Goldcrest, deals with the still pertinent question of whether one should sacrifice one of the manifestations of the practical value of an order (viz. Father Gabriel's work) to save the forfeiture of the power of that order elsewhere, where it is less needed and less devoutly implemented. Such is the dilemma of Ray McAnally's envoy in a key scene, and he and the rest of the cast do professional work but play somewhat second fiddle to the spectacle orchestrated by Joffe, Menges (cinematography) and Morricone (music).
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 128m
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Synopsis:
The priest of a Jesuit mission in South America converts a slave hunter and attempts to protect his native charges from the predations of the Portuguese, who have purchased the colony from the Spanish over their heads.
Review:
Joffe's film, the one plum from the basket that sank Goldcrest, deals with the still pertinent question of whether one should sacrifice one of the manifestations of the practical value of an order (viz. Father Gabriel's work) to save the forfeiture of the power of that order elsewhere, where it is less needed and less devoutly implemented. Such is the dilemma of Ray McAnally's envoy in a key scene, and he and the rest of the cast do professional work but play somewhat second fiddle to the spectacle orchestrated by Joffe, Menges (cinematography) and Morricone (music).
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 128m
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Synopsis:
The priest of a Jesuit mission in South America converts a slave hunter and attempts to protect his native charges from the predations of the Portuguese, who have purchased the colony from the Spanish over their heads.
Review:
Joffe's film, the one plum from the basket that sank Goldcrest, deals with the still pertinent question of whether one should sacrifice one of the manifestations of the practical value of an order (viz. Father Gabriel's work) to save the forfeiture of the power of that order elsewhere, where it is less needed and less devoutly implemented. Such is the dilemma of Ray McAnally's envoy in a key scene, and he and the rest of the cast do professional work but play somewhat second fiddle to the spectacle orchestrated by Joffe, Menges (cinematography) and Morricone (music).