“The Club” – not one you’d want to join [MOVIE REVIEW]

Father Ramírez (Alejandro Sieveking), Father García (Marcelo Alonso), Sister Mónica (Antonia Zegers), Father Silva (Jaime Vadell) and Father Ortega (Alejandro Goic). Courtesy of Music Box Films. “The Club,” Pablo Larrain’s darkly directed film from Chile featuring a taut original script by Guillermo Calderón, Daniel Villalobos and Larrain, is dark from the standpoint of subject matter as well as the stunning gray-nuanced and stormy photography by cinematographer Sergio Armstrong. Touching on material covered achingly by one of this year’s Oscar contenders “Spotlight,” “The Club” attempts to unveil the world of disgraced priests sent to secret hiding places both to remove them from the temptations that brought about their downfalls as well as place them, as representatives of the church, away from the dangers of exposure and prosecution. Four priests and the ex-nun caring for them live in seclusion in an isolated hilltop house near the Chilean seaside. All have been banished, the ultimate canonical punishment, to live apart from others as punishment for their former sins. Their routine is well established, and their contact with townspeople is limited; each individual is allowed…

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