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Film Review: An Interview With God

Still from An Interview With God

Doesn’t hit any great depths, but is good-natured enough.

This is a strange little film.

Paul Asher (Brenton Thwaites) is a young, Christian journalist, who has just returned from time covering the war in Afghanistan. His marriage to Sarah (Yael Grobglas) is faltering and he is struggling with what he’s seen on the frontline. Although supposedly on leave, he manages to secure a series of three interviews with God (David Strathairn). And so begins the deconstruction of Paul’s faith.

The mystery thread to the film-is this guy really God, and if not who is he-doesn’t particularly go anywhere, and the script pretty much does what is says on the can. We sit through an interview with God.

Strathairn is suitably authoritative as God, and does his best with a fairly doctrinal script. Thwaites, Hill Harper as his boss, and  Grobglas, all present their basically one-dimensional characters as well as they can.

Writer Ken Aguado  and director Perry Lang, no doubt set out to make a psycho-spiritual drama with some depth. All they’ve really come up with is what appears to be a Christian College media studies final project. Nonetheless the film does have a certain quaint charm, and one cannot fault the good-hearted nature of the work. If this film were a year 6 student, its report would read “works well with others and always tries its best.”

An Interview with God is currently playing at various cinemas around Adelaide.

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