The Little Hours is marketed as an extremely raunchy, blasphemous piece of work, lacking of any morality and ready to attack with exaggerated, obnoxious, raunchiness. This is, surprisingly, quite untrue. The Little Hours is raunchy, but it’s not that raunchy, with most of the inappropriate content playing quite honestly, rather than the exaggerated sense that the film’s trailers provide us with. Any semblance of sexual or drug fueled content that the film presents us with tends to have a purpose, exploring the deep sadness that comes with a world of great repression meeting a world of true humanity. The Little Hours explore the actions of a few nuns at a convent in the 14th century. Of course, because these nuns are played by Allison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci, and Molly Shannon, to mention a few, these are not your ordinary nuns. These are seasoned comedians playing nuns that burst into violent rages and scream f-bombs consistently. Soon, a young man named Masseto (Dave Franco), who is being chased after by some men with the intent to kill him, shows up to hide out at the nun’s convent. These nuns being no ordinary nuns, suddenly are spurred on to start living their lives, ready to indulge in what it means to be human. And that’s what most of the explicit content measures itself up to. When the nuns explode, it’s because they are repressed, their actions fueled by the confused sexuality and freedom in life that they desperately want. Most of the humor isn’t based in said explicitness even, but more in the subtle touches that the seasoned comedic powers in this film, tend to hit right on the mark every single time. The cast is rounded out by John C. Reilly as the convent’s priest and Nick Offerman as a hilarious nobleman, who both tend to transcend the mere one joke characters that they are in the script to become something noble in their own right. There’s something sobering about all the content in The Little Hours and the way that the actors attack it that feels beautiful, rather than cloying. These are reasonable people, thrust into unreasonable situations by their own morals and their own wants and needs, and the film transcends the raunchy humor at its core by using it to explore this situation. The Little Hours is one of the biggest surprises of the year so far. At the ending, I left feeling truly humbled at the humanity that I had just witnessed. Impressed by the class, and skill that the characters desperate emotions were captured with. The Little Hours acts like a wonderful balm to the sins of humanity and I think it’ll be a nice surprise to those who give it a shot.
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