The Sunday Times Digital Archive. At this point it is my favourite film. The Under pressure from both Cabeza and Portuguese representative Hontar, Cardinal Altamirano is forced to choose between two evils. A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South America. If he rules in favour of the colonists, the indigenous peoples will become enslaved; if he rules in favour of the missions, the entire Jesuit Order may be In a final exchange between Cardinal Altamirano and Hontar, Hontar laments that what happened was unfortunate but inevitable: "We must work in the world; the world is thus." 16 of 19 people found this review helpful. 4 Nominations, 1 Win. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. Two F.B.I. Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Altamirano rejoins: "No, thus have we made the world. Robert Bolt's thoughtful screenplay and Ennio Morricone's rich score won Golden Globe Awards. )Looking for some great streaming picks? Web. With Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn. Golden Globe. A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback. Sunday Times [London, England] 22 Mar.
The mission is a film that you won't forget. A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him. Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. After returning from another kidnapping trip, Mendoza is told by his assumed fiancée, Carlotta, that she loves his younger half-brother Felipe. In the 1740s, Spanish Jesuit priest Father Gabriel enters the northeastern Argentina and eastern Paraguayan jungle to build a mission station and Mercenary and slaver Rodrigo Mendoza makes his living kidnapping natives such as the Guarani community and selling them to nearby plantations, including the plantation of the Spanish Governor Don Cabeza. A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. The Mission is amoung the top ten or twenty films ever made. The other scene is where the former Slave driver, who repents after killing his brother, whom he loved above all else, goes with the Brothers up to the settlement of the Indians whom he was taking away to slavery on sugar plantations.
The text of Father Gabriel's character is loosely based on the life of Paraguayan The waterfall setting of the film suggests the combination of these events with the story of older missions, founded between 1610–1630 on the The historical Altamirano was not a cardinal sent by the Pope, but an emissary sent by the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Other themes throughout the movie include the "Penance", "Conquest", and "Ave Maria Guaraní" themes. Days later, a canoe of young children return to the scene of the Mission massacre and salvage a few belongings. The two most moving scenes are the one in which the Brother enters the Jungle above the waterfall, from which the Indians have cast the previous Brother that went up to them, and knowing that the Indians are all about him unseen in the jungle with their poison tipped arrows, he sits down in a clearing and plays the hauntingly beautiful "Gabriel's obo" tune on his own obo. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.