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Fri 05 May 2010Of Gods and Men/Des Hommes et des Dieux
Xavier Beauvois, director of Don't Forget You're Going to Die and Le Petit Lieutenant, surges into the front rank of French film- makers with this thoughtful, unhurried meditation on the virtues and dangers of religious faith.
Coming from a largely secular country, whose film-makers rarely have anything to do with religion, Beauvois takes care to clarify that his monastic heroes are (even the most hardline Marxist might agree) good men as well as good Christians.
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