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There have been a lot of movies recently about God (Bruce Almighty) and faith (Dancing at Lughnasa), but many of them have avoided mentioning one word: Christ. Luther breaks that trend by addressing the foundation figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther. This film unabashedly presents the man as both a fallible human being, with crushing fits of self-doubt, and a man in constant pursuit of the mind of God, a man who changed the face of Europe.
Luther was and is an ambiguous figure to many, and this movie doesn’t try to simplify anything. We search for Luther (Joseph Fiennes) in the most productive and tumultuous years of his life, with the movie ending abruptly after the Augsburg Confession. The character of Luther’s sponsor, Philip the Wise (Sir Peter Ustinov), is crop down, making him a edifying figure where he was in fact a shrewd politician who tried to exhaust Luther’s opinions as a procedure to enrich position coffers. The figure of Karlstadt (Jochen Horst) is precise and receives comment, but the film doesn’t really permit Luther to endorse or condemn his rebellion. Luther’s wife and sometime foil, the exciting and witty Katerina von Borg (Claire Cox), doesn’t even appear until come the ruin of the film. And Johann Tetzel (Alfred Molina), whose abuses spurred Luther’s greatest accomplishments, is treated like a straw man.
This movie seems structured at times like a Cliffs Notes of Luther’s life and work. Perhaps it’s intended to abet the viewing public to read the books themselves and fetch out who Luther was. It’s certainly not a technical tour-de-force. The opening is reduce together with the same abruptness as a trailer, Luther’s conversions (he had three, each more profound than the last, like stairsteps) are compressed, the camera is usually unmoving, like a portable stage.
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But the movie is strong, accurately reflecting who Luther was and what he did. Running fair under two hours and allowing plenty of room for the circumstances of Luther’s day, it’s easy to glimpse. The environment, including land and cityscapes, are well rendered, the light and sound are distinct, and the colors pop.
Plainly, this isn’t a general-interest film. People who recognize it are at least enthralling about Luther’s work, if not already familiar with it. But for a theological art-house movie, it’s a lop above most of what’s been made in modern years, and eminently watchable. Highly recommended.
I have seen many Luther films over the years. They get him into a superhero. In many senses Luther was a superhero but he didn’t plot out to be one. What I like about this movie is it brings in other aspects such as the Peasant Revolution and the ensuing slaughter. This is avoided in other movies about Luther. Such topics are uncertain fare for those hoping to get Martin Luther perfect. After all, Luther’s greatest supporters were directly connected to the carnage. The movie makes Luther human for once and this movie isn’t one of those slow theological dissertations. Sir Peter Ustinov turns out a dazzling performance as Duke Frederick in this, his final film before his death. I saw this 3 times in the movies and would have seen it more had the movie remained in local theaters longer.
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