FILM REVIEW - THE CLUB (2015)
Living in exile in, four disgraced priests and a nun occupy a small house in Chile. All of these priests have done something wrong. This strange open prison, disguised as a 'retirement home' is a refuge of sorts for the transgressed. Each priest has been shunned by their respective churches due to allegations of child abuse. Rather than allow for an inquiry, which in many ways would bring shame to the Catholic church and their religion, they choose to exile these priests to an unassuming house by the sea. Unbeknownst to the local community, this strange brotherhood of the disgraced have their routines destroyed when a new priest arrives. An unstable man, who was sexually abused by one of the flocks, waits outside the property and begins to cause a scene. Director Pablo Larrain's script gives Sandokan an explosion of almost unbearable, graphic descriptions of the abuse he endured. Given a gun by one of the residents, the new 'inmate' priest shoots himself.
