‘The Prayer’ Is An Austere Yet Accessible Portrait Of The Transformative Power Of Religion [Berlin Review]

Setting aside Bible Belt-targeted dreck, films on faith tend to fall into one of two categories: the austere or the spectacular, “Dekalog” or “The Ten Commandments.” In the running for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, French filmmaker Cédric Kahn’s “The Prayer” doesn’t display the formal rigor of a Kieślowski film but it does accomplish the tricky feat of being simultaneously thoughtful and accessible.

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