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Will ‘Fatima’ Bring Religion Back To The Movie Mainstream?

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Michael Cieply Executive EditorWill the movies ever let religion back into the mainstream? It doesn’t seem likely,  given the secular bent of most critics, festivals, and film awards.

But the question could certainly occur to any thoughtful viewer of Marco Pontecorvo’s Fátima, which is set for release by Picturehouse in theaters and via PVOD on Aug.

28.The film, which has been shown in pop-up previews for the last few weeks, is about the heavenly visions of three young children, who in 1917 said they encountered the Blessed Virgin Mary in a field near Fátima, Portugal.

Believers flocked to the site. There may have been miracles. And Mary, said the children, confided three “secrets,” which became the core of an enduring Catholic cult that.

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