Shia LaBeouf Discovers the Political Power of Catholic Ecstasy in "Padre Pio"
Briefly

The mystery of religious faith gets a ferocious and deeply contextualized workout in Abel Ferrara's latest film, "Padre Pio," which opens Friday.It's an idiosyncratic not-quite bio-pic of the controversial Italian saint, a priest and a Capuchin friar who developed a cultish following in a rural village in the years following the First World War.
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