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Beautifully acted, thoughtful and affecting. It reminded me of Robert Bresson's films about French priests in obscure post-war villages, taking the pain of the world on their shoulders. Except this Orthodox priest had a thick skin and a robust attitude to the post-Ceaucescu corruption that turns a blind eye to the exploitation of Rumanian women in the Mediterranean sex trade. Its juxtaposition of his faith and the loneliness beneath the surface of tourist havens like Cyprus haunted me. It was realistic without being salacious, strongly felt without Hollywood sentimentality. My only quibble was that some of the early scenes were a little ponderous.

It is about the aftermath of traumas, corruption in politics, love, but also the presentation of how a person close to God should be.

This movie from director Ciprian Mega is somehow part of a trilogy.

1-The Very Last Morning (2016) 2-The Voice Crying in the Wilderness (2022) 3-21 Rubies(2023).

Each film presents the simple life with its dramas, the actions taken with their consequences but also the traumas that follow us all our lives making us act as a result of what we experienced.

Several subjects are treated at the same time, presented subtly, it is mandatory to watch every second in Ciprian Mega's films because 1 second can make you miss an extremely important scene presented maybe even a second, even if the camera falls on an object that means something, whether one of the characters says something that can turn the whole movie upside down or reveal the actions up to that point in the movie.