Film Movement
MOVIE REVIEW
Stations of the Cross (2014)
Dietrich Brüggemann’s deftly moving film about the dire consequences of religious devotion teeters between black satire and blacker comedy, but settles in the end on simple tragedy. “Stations of the Cross” adapts the stages of the Via Dolorosa into 14 extended scenes of staged formal rigor, an ongoing domestic calamity regarded almost entirely from a stationary camera at roughly eye level.