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Ethan Hawke Has a Crisis of Faith in the Official Trailer for Paul Schrader's Mind-Bending Masterpiece First Reformed
The festival hit from the visionary writer of Taxi Driver opens in theaters May 18
Reverend Ernst Toller (
Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (
Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. From writer-director
Paul Schrader (
Taxi Driver;
American Gigolo;
Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.
