The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)

• Year: 2002
• Released: 13 Dec 2002
• Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 21 wins & 15 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313196/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_crime_of_padre_amaro
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-crime-of-padre-amaro
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Spanish
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 118 min
• Writer: Vicente Leñero, Eça de Queirós
• Director: Carlos Carrera
• Cast: Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia
• Keywords: pregnancy, priest, drug trafficking, catholicism, heart attack,

	6.7/10
	60/100

The Crime of Padre Amaro Storyline

Recently ordained a priest, 24-year-old Father Amaro is sent to a small parish church in Los Reyes, Mexico to assist the aging Father Benito in his daily work. Benito–for years a fixture in the church as well as the community–welcomes Father Amaro into a new life of unseen challenges. Upon arriving in Los Reyes, the ambitious Father Amaro meets Amelia, a beautiful 16-year-old girl whose religious devotion soon becomes helplessly entangles in a growing attraction to the new priest. Amelia is quickly following into the footsteps of her mother, Sanjuanera, who has been engaged in a long-time affair with Father Benito. Amaro soon discovers that corruption and the Church are old acquaintances in Los Reyes. Father Benito has been receiving financial help from the region’s drug lord for the construction of a new health clinic. As well, another priest in the diocese, Father Natalio, is suspected of assisting guerilla troops in the highlands. Maenwhile, Amelia and Father Amaro have fallen in love and have begun a passionate sexual relationship. As things become increasingly more complicated in the small community, the walls around Father Amaro begin to crumble. Torn between the divine and the carnal, the righteous and the unjust, Father Amaro must summon his strength to choose which life he will lead.

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The Crime of Padre Amaro Movie Reviews

Mexico in the middle of a film renaissance…

For many priests, celibacy is a true vocation which liberates them… For others, it is a lifelong struggle… If celibacy was made voluntary, not only would many priests be happier, but the Church would be richer… Above all, it might decide the only way to restore the numbers of the priesthood, and that seems to me not a bad idea…

In “The Crime of Father Amaro,” the top film in Mexican box-office history, Carlos Carrera shows that even a man with morals and scruples betrays the nature of his profession, mostly when he brazenly criticizes the priesthood, and questions the Catholic Church’s representatives on a variety of charges like illicit love affair, corruption, drug dealing, and hypocrisy…

The story takes a liberal priest, Father Amaro(Gael Garcia Bernal), protégé of a repulsive obese bishop (Ernesto Gomez Cruz), to the remote dusty village of Los Reyes to assist the older priest of the parish Father Benito (Sancho Gracia) in his daily work…

Amaro quickly realizes that virtually every fellow priest is involved in something immoral, and that his aging superior is receiving financial help from the region’s drug lord for the construction of a new church-run hospital, and is secretly spending his cold nights with the proprietress of a local restaurant Augustina (Anjelica Aragón). He also discovers that Father Natalio (Damian Alcazar) is suspected of aiding the revolutionary factions in opposing the drug lords and mobsters…

Amaro’s own weaknesses is put to the test when he finds himself led into temptation by Augustina ‘s extremely sensual teenager Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancón) a relationship that eventually goes way outside the bounds of his priestly oath… and, without any sign of inner turmoil, he embarks on a passionate affair with the devout catechism teacher…

Amalia—for whom loving a young priest serves as an extension of her deep piety—decides that the good-looking priest is the one for her and rejects her disappointed boyfriend, the aggressive reporter Ruben (Andres Montiel) who wrote an article alleging that the hospital is a front for laundering drug money…

The polemical film focuses on blasphemous scenes as on a vicious priest who stops at nothing, even by continuing the lies and hypocrisy to protect his career…

The way of all flesh

From a novel by the 19th century Portuguese well-known novelist Eça de Queirós, the Mexican director Carlos Carrera made this good movie in which to the main ingredients present at all times everywhere (lust, the temptations of the flesh haunting Catholic priests, religious hypocrisy, love and bourgeois prejudices) he added specific Mexican ones of our times such as the fight for independent journalism, drug traffic, complicity of authorities and the fight of the peasants for dignity, freedom and a better life. He was very successful in telling the same story contained in the Portuguese novel, transposing it from the atmosphere of a Portuguese provincial town in the second half of 19th century to rural Mexico of present times. The acting of all performers is sober and efficient with special prominence to Ana Claudia in the role of the sensual nymphet who seduces the young priest not with great difficulty it must be said.

What it had to say…

I enjoyed this movie, not because it was gripping or exciting, but because of what it had to say.

I’m not completely aware of everything to do with the Catholic Church, but the controversy in this movie is a necessary one.

I’ve never seen a Gael Garcia movie before and I thought this was good. The most powerful part of the movie is what it leaves you with – the message at the end; the themes of confession, of sin, of mistakes, of being human.

If you can’t watch something that is quite slow and is not edge of the seat stuff, then forget it. Even the music isn’t very memorable. But the movie stuck in my mind.