CINEMA Silence: Stamping on the face of faith*

Silence is Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel of the same name, itself based on actual events. It is about two Portuguese Jesuits who go to Japan to find their missing mentor and minister to those Catholics forced to practise their faith in secret, due to extensive and brutal persecution by the state.



The Jesuits are Fr Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield, pictured) and Fr Garupe (Adam Driver). They know of the persecution and know th…

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