Synopsis
The Monk (Le Moine, 2011) is Dominik Moll's gothic thriller starring Vincent Cassel, and you can watch online on iFILM. In 18th-century Madrid, Ambrosio — left at the abbey gate as a baby — has grown into the most revered preacher in the city.
His sermons fill the cathedral; his self-denial looks flawless. Then a young novice arrives at the monastery, and the novice is not what he seems. One temptation loosens everything Ambrosio believed about himself, and each surrender pulls him toward a darker one. Moll takes his time, bleaching every frame in hard Spanish light, turning a holy man's life into a slow fall.
It's drawn from Matthew Lewis's notorious 1796 novel, a foundation stone of Gothic fiction, with Sergi López and Geraldine Chaplin in support. The horror stays quiet and gets under the skin — more about guilt and inevitability than monsters. Stream The Monk (2011) online on iFILM.
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