‘Padro Pio’ Review: Abel Ferrara Directs Shia LaBeouf In a Curious Take On a 20th-Century Saint

You might think Shia LaBeouf portraying a 20th-century Italian saint under the direction of perpetual bad-boy expat Abel Ferrara is a pretty strange prospect. But that’s just the iceberg tip of the…

,” which, despite the American star’s casting in the title role, often appears uninterested in its own venerated ostensible subject.

This German co-production opens with LaBeouf’s shaggy figure arriving via donkey at his new, permanent home towards the end of the war. Soldiers are welcomed back in the nearby town, some now maimed or weakened by poison gas exposure. But a young mother waits in vain for her husband, who neither returns nor surfaces on casualty lists.

There’s also the problem that this is supposed to be a movie about Padre Pio, who nonetheless never quite comes into focus either conceptually or in performance. The real-life figure’s occasional political sympathies are a matter of some debate , but that goes unaddressed. So do the phenomena associated with him, with the major exception of one sequence in which he seemingly heals a crippled beggar.

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