Conspiracy of Silence (review)
"Priests can't deny their sexuality, gay or otherwise." Whoa. And it's a man of the cloth who utters this dangerous line. Double whoa. It's only the future of the largest religious organization on the planet that filmmaker John Deery chose for his writing and directing debut, and the result is a film both astonishing in its frankness and accomplished in its intimacy, a thriller of the conscience that questions the policies of the most hidebound of institutions by examining their effect on those it purports to serve. In a small, rural Irish town, a priest commits suicide almost simultaneously with a young seminarian (Jonathan Forbes: Horatio Hornblower: Duty) getting booted from priest-
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