Watch: La messa è finita 1985 123movies, Full Movie Online – The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal. Father Giulio determines to leave again, but his stopped parents convince him to perform the wedding ceremony for his friend Caesar and his fiancee. Don Giulio rushes through the ceremony and then away from Rome. Once away from the city, he immediately regains happiness..
Plot: The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
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Bless me Father
A priest returns to his home village expecting to have an impact on both family and friends. He is hugely disappointed when he finds that even his mother and father have grown apart with his father’s old life crisis and his sister’s dilemma. I was reminded of the Irish Drama Calvary which had a similar premise. This is not quite as good but as a struggling Catholic-American, was impressed by the humanity of the script. The Mass is ended, watch this film.
Ite missa est .
“La Messa è finita” begins like Bunuel’s “Nazarin “: a priest who believes in a pure religion,an idealist who does not realize that the society around him is primarily materialistic ;it ends like Bunuel’s movie ,or more likely like the same’ s “Viridiana” , two works in which both heroes accept ,the former ,a symbolic pineapple , the latter ,a menage à trois.Since half a century , Catholic churches get more and more empty ; the ritual has lost its mystery ,gone with the latin of yore.When he enters his church ,Don Giulio finds a place covered with dust and cobwebs ;apart from his two altar boys, nobody attends his mess.The world outside is not prepared to accept a strict moral .
The former priest is now a happy husband and a father of a child he adores (” you can love both humanity and the one you cherish”) ; his father deserts his faithful wife for a woman who could be a daughter ,and he wants to have a baby ;his sister ,who ‘s pregnant by a man who is more interested in the fate of rapaces and snakes (ahead of his time,as far as ecology is concerned) ,wants an abortion ;during a premarital meeting ,a future husband laughs himself silly at the biblical meaning of the verb ” to know” …….Cesare,an adult who attends Sunday school, can only be considered a joke in this context .
As the movie progresses, Don Giulio realizes he’s more and more concerned with himself: “when I hear somebody’ s confession,I can’t help but thinking of my own problems “; when his dear mom commits suicide ,the first question which comes to his mind is : “who will think about me now?”;And his last mess revolves around I ,me ,mine.
Trust Moretti to avoid clichés and to come up with unusual scenes : the most questionable is the beating up near the fountain ;it comes to soon in the movie .
“La Messa è finita” ,and when the unfortunate parents of his future work ,and IMHO materpiece “la stanza del figlio ” (2001) lose their only child , they will find some consolation,not in religion,but in meeting their boy’s friend.
Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Nanni Moretti
Writer Nanni Moretti, Sandro Petraglia
Actors Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Marco Messeri
Country Italy
Awards 4 wins & 17 nominations
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Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm