Martin Scorsese struggles with spirituality
Too bleak and frightening for children, perhaps too whimsical and simple for adults
Cinema
Silence: Directed by Martin Scorsese, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:***
A Monster Calls: Directed by JA Bayona, Nationwide, 12A Rating:****
For his new film Silence, Martin Scorsese returns to a subject that has illuminated his entire career: the nature of faith. From the anti- hero of Taxi Driver as an avenging angel, to Cape Fear’s tattooed fundamentalist delivering God’s wrath, since his earliest days Scorsese revealed himself to be an artist animated by his Catholicism.
