Stations of the Cross 2014 123movies

Watch: Kreuzweg 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him, to become a saint and go to heaven – just like all those holy children she’s always been told about. So Maria goes through 14 stations, just like Jesus did on his path to Golgatha, and reaches her goal in the end. Not even Christian, a boy she meets at school, can stop her, even if in another world, they might have become friends, or even more. Left behind is a broken family that finds comfort in faith, and the question if all these events were really so inevitable. STATIONS OF THE CROSS is an indictment and, at the same time, the legend of a saint. It’s a story of religion, devotion and radical faith, and the film itself comes along just as radical as the subject matter, telling the story in only 14 fixed-angle long shots, allowing the viewer to contemplate the interactions on screen in an entirely different way than in a traditional film..
Plot: Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Paul and their traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. Everything that Maria thinks and does must be examined before God. And since the Lord is a strict shepherd, she lives in constant fear of committing some misconduct…
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 4,444
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	68/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 96 Popularity: 7.844 | TMDB

Reviews:

How to make a girl twice the daughter of hell
This exceptional movie graphically illustrates what religious indoctrination does to the mind and thinking of a child and is about as far removed from the Biblical manifestation of the LOVE of God as it’s possible to get. Based on Catholic theology, the story follows a teenage girl’s idealistic pursuit to get to heaven by achieving religious purity through self denial and repression. Her devout mother rules her family with an iron fist never passing up an opportunity to denigrate and poison her daughter with barbs of criticism and verbal flagellation. Her father is depicted as weak and hen-pecked into a state of total submission. Inevitably this results in a predictable breakdown for the vulnerable young girl and is heart-breaking to watch. Yet, this is a compelling, almost necessary, story that is extremely well written and superbly acted by all the players. This is well worth watching whatever faith or background you come from.

So well done it’s actually tough to watch
“Kreuzweg” is the newest movie by Dietrich Brüggemann and his sister Anna. The duo already collaborated on several successful projects in the past, such as “Drei Zimmer/Küche/Bad” and “Renn, wenn Du kannst”. Anna Brüggemann is also a prolific actress and plays a part in this film here as well. The film, which is also known as “Stations of the Cross” was pretty successful at the Berlin Film Festival last year and achieved several other awards and prestigious nominations since then. The lead character is played quietly convincing by Lea von Acken. She has not acted in anything else so far, but if she decides to become a professional, she may have a good career ahead. You really feel for her and suffer with her. Movies about religious life are not too frequent these days, maybe because it’s virtually impossible to never offend anyone, either the Christians or the atheists.

So this one made for a nice change and let me tell you, it’s very critical towards religion. There are several interesting aspects about it as well. Basically the main character’s fate is linked to the one of Jesus Christ and we read a quote from the bible every time a new chapter begins. This quote fits nicely what is about to happen next. Also pay attention how every chapter has no moving camera at all. It’s still in one place, so every chapter takes place at a certain location and does not switch places. Also, I believe there is no soundtrack here in this film. It’s all about the interactions between the characters and their actions. No music. Just words. The most despicable person in the film is the girl’s mother. Even after the death of the child, she still believes, everything is the way it should be and we know she is the one where her daughter got this sick approach to giving her life prematurely to God. Her father is just there, but does not say a word as the mother is clearly the head of the family, the only one with authority and nobody dares to contradict her.

The most famous cast member may be Hanns Zischler, but he only has a small part as an undertaker at the end of the film. You may have seen him in Munich. The film’s heart and soul may very well be the writing. The dialogs are top-notch from start to finish, the characters’ words and actions are realistic. If there is anything, I did not like about the film, it is probably the fact that her brother really started talking at the end just like a miracle. But you can probably make a point that it was just because of the extreme situation everybody was in with Maria (fitting name) was dying at the same time, ironically triggered by a piece of altar bread. This is an excellent film, one of Germany’s best in recent years and I still wonder why they submitted a piece of crap like “Geliebte Schwestern” to the Academy awards with films like “Kreuzweg” as possible alternatives. Highly recommended. It’s roughly 100 minutes that are as tragic as interesting to watch.

Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama
Director Dietrich Brüggemann
Writer Anna Brüggemann, Dietrich Brüggemann
Actors Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter
Country Germany, France
Awards 9 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

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Sound Mix Dolby Digital (5.1)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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Printed Film Format DCP