Calvary

Calvary is a 2014 Irish drama film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh. It stars Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, Domhnall Gleeson, M. Emmet Walsh and Isaach de Bankolé. The film began production in September 2012 and was released in April 2014 in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, in July in Australia and in August 2014 in the United States. The film was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Accepting confession from an unseen person, Father James hears how the man suffered regular childhood sexual abuse from a priest who has since died. Father James expresses his lament for the man's pain, but the man boasts that he's planning to murder James. Citing widespread indifference towards priest child abuse, the confessor claims the sacrifice of an innocent priest will draw a stronger outrage than punishment of a guilty one, despite said violence being as senseless and unjust as his own rape. The man gives James a week to set his affairs in order, intending to kill him next Sunday.