2018 · comedy · sports
Holy Goalie
Directed by Curro Velázquez1h 35m2018
A young priest coaches a team of uncoordinated monks in order to win a soccer tournament and save their monastery from being turned into a hotel.
Our read: Holy Goalie (2018) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- funny
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