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Perfect Obedience

Country: Mexico, Language: Spanish, 92 mins

Original Title

Obediencia Perfecta
  • Director: Luis Urquiza
  • Writer: Ernesto Alcocer; Luis Urquiza
  • Producer: Daniel Birman Ripstein; Lourdes Garcia

CGiii Comment

Well, this won't be shown at the Vatican's Saturday morning matinee...

Yes, this insidious, impervious and unassailable institution is - quite rightly - exposed and pounded once again.

As with all these ecclesiatical stories, predictability is a common problem - they, generally, all end the same way...crumpled cassocks and broken boys...no justice. Fortunately, this Perfect Obedience offers something a little different..handsome priests and red herrings take you [slightly] off-guard.

Rather than doing an out-and-out priest-bashing (although they do get bashed) - this is about the grooming - so sinister...in that with careful execution you can evoke genuine consent, love, loyalty, trust and dependency...all in the name of God. Jesus H. Christ!

Whatever happened to: no man is above the law? Well, the Catholic church has been laughing at that fatuous statement for many, many years...enough!

Beautifully shot, powerfully played. A fine exhibition of these black-hearted blackguards.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Julian, a young seminarian, is sent to live with Los Cruzados de Cristo, where he will have to follow a hard spiritual journey to achieve "the perfect obedience".

Cast & Characters

Isabel Aerenlund as Mama de Alberto;
Juan Ignacio Aranda as Padre Galaviz;
Juan Manuel Bernal as Angel de la Cruz;
Luis Ernesto Franco as Padre Robles;
Alfonso Herrera as Sacramento Santos;
Claudette Maille as Senora Alcerreca;
Alejandro de Hoyos Parera as Alberto