25 July 2018, The Tablet

Belief and duty clash in Daniel Kokotajlo's compelling Apostasy


Belief and duty clash in Daniel Kokotajlo's compelling Apostasy

Molly Wright as Alex

 

The agony of unyielding adherence to a faith is memorably dramatised in Daniel Kokotajlo’s debut feature. Apostasy would be compelling enough simply as a story of individual believers in a clash with institutional duty, but the film also unlooses a shocking gut-punch halfway through that will leave you winded for the remainder of its span. Not since Hitchcock’s Psycho (which also concerned the fate of two sisters) can I recall such a drastic jolt.

 

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