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"Down the Arm of God": Interview with Caleb Landry Jones, Peter Brunner & Team

"Down the Arm of God": Interview with Caleb Landry Jones, Peter Brunner & Team

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 2 Monaten

"We wanted to break down those stereotypes and create a conversation"

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Five years after premiering his spiritual drama Luzifer at
Locarno’s Concorso Internazionale, Peter Brunner returns to the
festival's Piazza Grande with an uncompromisingly realist
exploration of homelessness in the US. Co-scriptwriter Caleb Landry
Jones, who happened to share the prize for the best lead
performance at Sitges 2021 with Lucifer’s Franz Rogowski, stars in
Down thr Arm of God as an idealistic pastor facing resistance from
his Texas small-town congregation as he tries to help the local
unhoused people. Just a few hours before the premiere, the Austrian
director, Jones, and the actors India Marie Cross, John P.W. Jones,
Bart Guthrie, Kip Lee Billups, and Christopher Israel talk with
Lidanoir about collaborating with actual homeless individuals, the
challenges of portraying their experiences realistically, and the
devastating consequences of a dysfunctional system.