But with – surprise! – a massive sex scandal all but demolishing their congregation, the good pastor decides to invite a documentary film crew to view and record their comeback attempt: a grand reopening of their glistening cathedral on Easter Sunday, even though most former parishioners will almost certainly be attending the service held by the Childs' younger rivals and, pointedly, married co-pastors (the biting, hysterical Nicole Beharie and Conphidance). With loads of cringey giggles.īrown and Hall play Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs and his “First Lady” Trinitie, who lorded over an intensely popular, and profitable, Southern Baptist church.
This is a truly rare bird: a mockumentary drama.
Brown, and their co-stars frequently are, you're left as likely to well up from pity as from laughter. The film's overriding tones, however, are of sadness, regret, and pathetic neediness, and as hilarious as Regina Hall, Sterling K. There are laughs, to be sure, and big ones nothing else in 2022 has made me gut-cackle quite the way I did when a wronged wife, here, submerged her adulterous husband in a baptism pool for just a li-i-i-ittle longer than obviously planned.
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Save Your Soul., the fascination of the movie lies in it not being used – not strictly used – for the purposes of comedy. Yet while writer/director Adamma Ebo similarly employs that duo's mockumentary format for Honk for Jesus. Among inherently American targets, few seem more ripe for merciless satire than the cult of big-money, mega-church evangelism it's frankly astonishing that Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy didn't get around to the subject back in their Waiting for Guffman/ Best in Show/ Mighty Wind heyday.
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