FIRST REFORMED

A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in motion.

Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Bringing Out the Dead. Schrader has also directed 18 feature films, including his 1982 remake of the horror classic Cat People, and also American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Light Sleeper, Affliction, Auto Focus, etc.

Schrader excavates deep personal history and bares present-day anger and pain with a rare, wondrous intensity.

Richard Brody, New Yorker