The Curse of Father Cardona (2005)
A Catholic priest goes to a small town to solve some strange things that are happening there, things that come from the unknown, and gets involved in a romantic relationship with a young woman of the village.
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Purely Joyful Movie!
best movie i've ever seen.
A Disappointing Continuation
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
A cheeky and occasionally rude romantic comedy from the Dominican Republic, La Maldicion del Padre Cardona is a well-made effort from first time director Felix Germain. Though hardly groundbreaking stuff, the film is well written by Germain, and features a game cast headlined by Anthony Alvarez as the title character and Zoe Saldana (seen most recently in a little indie pic entitled Avatar) as the woman he falls for. In addition to an amusing exorcism sub-plot--a curse has apparently been placed on the town, and it's up to Padre Cardona to root out the evil--there's enough here to pique the interest of rom-com fans and admirers of the female form alike.
Felix Herman knows how to tell a story. The actors tell a witty story of lust, ignorance and romance with an ample dose of traditional Latin American magical realism. Zoe Saldaña has been given the chance to carry the movie and she does so with a fearless energy that marks her as an actress who is comfortable in her skin and skillful in her craft. Freddy Beras Goico has the kind of genuine sharp humor that can't be faked; Veronica Lopez is wonderful embodying the kind of dramatic small mind everybody loves to hate. The Story takes you to a place where time stopped; you could easily be in the 1940s as you could be in the 21st century. The characters and the humor are timeless. It will be interesting to see this little known genre of film-making grow so in tune with the literature that comes out of Latin America.
hello I'm from the Dominican republic and I saw that movie called : la malicing del padre car dona and my opinion is that movie is very bad movie ..the script is horrible the acting roles are bad very badthat is the worst movie done in the Dominican republic that happen cause the director of this movie use people who use to work in the TV not people who really acting in movie or something like that..the movie is very boring..is an empty comedy without any history to tell this movie has a lot of technician errors...this comedy cant make you laugh..may be cry for lost your money going to see this mess..please stop doing movie like this this is a shame for our country
An exercise in poor execution and poor writing, there is nothing special to this little film which has no plot, story, meaning or anything else other than toilet humor poorly executed. I do NOT recommend this movie to anyone who considers themselves as a thinking human being, its just a painful experience that has no sense, there is no way you can understand this movie, is just senseless in all ways.Bad writing, bad directing, bad acting(some not all), bad editing, bad sound effects (cartoonish unfunny).On the good part Zoe Zaldana is delicious in this, Freddy Beras is very funny, Sergio Carlo is OK, Anthony Alvarez is OK, And Koldo is very good! Also the cinematography is good, but thats about it.Its a shame the waste of money and good talent that this "Director" did, a crying shame!