UNITED STATES
Victoria Advocate
By Joe Friar
March 9, 2016
This year’s Oscar-winning Best Picture, “Spotlight” focused on a team of reporters who exposed a coverup of pedophile priests by the Catholic church.
In one scene from the film, a Boston Globe reporter discovers a group home for defrocked priests accused of sexual abuse in his own neighborhood.
The troubling revelation causes the journalist to place his own kids on high alert as he warns them to stay away from the home.
Chilean writer-director Pablo Larrain explores similar territory in his chilling new film, “The Club,” as four defrocked priests and a former nun take residence in a seaside home located in La Boca, Chile.
The two-story house serves as a rehab facility where the former clergy do penance for their sins while mostly avoiding the general public. Sister Monica (Antonia Zegers) serves as the caretaker and warden of the disgraced priests, but later in the film, its revealed that she also has a sordid past that involves the abuse of a child, physical not sexual.
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