Word: amaro
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...best and broadest sense of the term. He is ambitious to rise within his powerful if sclerotic organization--mostly because he wants to get its blood flowing. His only problem is that the bureaucracy to which he has committed his life is Mexico's Roman Catholic Church, and Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal, most recently in Y Tu Mama Tambien) is a priest whose largest doctrinal doubts center on celibacy...
...newly ordained Father Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) immune to scandal: In Los Reyes there is dirt on everyone and always a slimy gossipmonger surreptitiously on hand to dig it out or dish it out. On his first day at the church he meets Amelia, a devout yet promiscuous girl who first falls in love with him and then gives herself up, body and soul, for him. Away with celibacy, with chastity, with the Church—or perhaps...
...matter of months, Amaro metamorphoses from an ingenuous, generous young priest into one a little older, a little harder, a little more willing to bear the cross of hypocrisy. Amaro quickly quashes his inner turmoil beneath his deadly ambitions and individual political goals: He chooses to replace the delicate cloak of love and naivete with the holy vestments of sanctioned immorality...
...emotions in The Crime of Father Amaro run the gamut from agony to ecstasy, and often they fluctuate dizzyingly between the two. What happens in between, however, allows us to glimpse a reflection of human nature: The film may be melodramatic, but it exposes the complex monstrosities that are ourselves. According to Father Benito, laundered drug money, once it passes through the hands of the priests, is bad money that turns good. The Crime of Father Amaro, once it passes through the capable hands of director Carlos Carrera, is the bad movie that turns good...
...CRIME OF FATHER AMARO (EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO...