Prayer

In Jerusalem of the year 1229, there lived a Greek Ortho­dox monk named Johannes Myronas. Need­ing some parch­ment for a prayer book, he grabbed some already-used pages, erased their exist­ing …

There is some very concerted image-making and mood-making in this technically accomplished yet unsatisfying drama from first-time, Norway-based director Dara Van Dusen. It is a sombre tale of the American …