Two sets of parents meet up years after a devastating tragedy in a difficult and impeccably acted film about forgiveness and blame
At the centre of the agonising drama Mass is a conversation of overwhelming difficulty, the kind that makes you wince to even think about how it might play out. Watching it unfold for almost two hours is then something of an endurance test, an often suffocating experience trapped in a room with four people who don’t want to be there but know that they should, driven by the vain hope that maybe it might chip away at some of the paralysing pain they’re all stuck with. It’s going deeper into the darkness to try to see the light, asking hard questions knowing the answers will be even harder, a grim yet necessary torture chamber.
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