The Club

2015 [SPANISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 94 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 12427 12.4K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Pablo Larraín Photo
Pablo Larraín

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Catalina Pulido as Surfista
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Williams 'Wilo' Farias as
Felipe Ríos Photo
Felipe Ríos as Dueño de Perro
Claudio Marín Photo
Claudio Marín as
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1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jtncsmistad 7 / 10

The price is dear and the rewards are few for members of "The Club"

Four disgraced Catholic priests and a mysterious nun live together in a house situated in a remote seaside town. Each must atone for sins of the past. Collectively they comprise the "The Club".And they don't take kindly to guests.Chilean Director Pablo Larraín (who also shares writing and producing credit) does masterful work here creating an unremittingly dreary and dour atmosphere right from the opening frame. Even those scenes where the sun is shining feel decidedly dim in his film.And the overarching tone befits the performances. This is fine ensemble work from the aforementioned five principle characters. The supporting cast is equally as impressive. Together these actors deliver a common thread of acute despondency and resignation to the dire circumstances which have come to consume and define their dismal lives.It would be an exercise in easy to dismiss, or at the very least, minimize, "The Club" as a portrait of punishing depression and abject absolution. But I will submit that it is more than merely such uncomplicated characterization.Larraín pulls nary a punch in his raw and unsettling condemnation of an omnipotent organization which has continued to figuratively turn it's head in the face of evil transgression rather than face the sordid depravity head on and work to root out and vanquish it.The final moments of "The Club" brings the notion of "The New Church" and the suggestion that there is perhaps systemic change afoot in institutional Catholicism. These scenes also introduce a new boarder into the house in the person of a severely scarred victim of that which has been allowed to permeate in perpetuity and practically without punity.But what we can not know, and what Larraín clearly leaves ambiguous by intent, is this: Will "The Club" welcome their new tenant in a spirit of repentance and forgiveness? Or will they treat this interloper as they have all other unwelcome invasions of their duplicitous commune? We can only hope for the former. Still, there is little expectation that our wish will be fulfilled. For by now we have come to learn in no uncertain terms that this is a congregation whose service is certainly not in the name of God. But rather in the shame of."The Club" is not at all pleasant to watch. It is alarmingly disturbing, spiritually jarring and leaves you adrift in a wake of lingering despair. This is not to say that it is a bad film. For it is not. It is to maintain, nonetheless, that it is a film about bad people violating all that is sacred about the human condition. Particularly by those who have vowed to operate in a manner mirroring that of divinity much more so than mortality.
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Reviewed by lasttimeisaw 8 / 10

Cinema Omnivore - The Club (2015) 7.7/10

"THE CLUB is cloistered in a jerkwater Chilean beach town, where four defrocked priests reside in a house superintended by a caretaker, ex-nun Sister Mónica (Zegers). Disgraced by their conducts (among which are homosexuality, child trafficking, whistleblowing, etc.), the priests are consigned to repent and live modestly and inconspicuously. But after a fifth arrives, Padre Lazcano (a distinctive-looking Soza), who later shots himself when confronted by Sandokan (Farías), a victim of his pedophilia, now damaged goods. Consequentially, the Curia sends a spiritual director Padre García (Alonso) to investigate the incident, check on the priests and mull over the possibility of closing the house. Dirts will be dug, punishment metered out, damage maximally contained while Larraín and co. Vehemently tears off the fig leaf of the Church's hypocrisy."

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