Vera Farmiga in "Higher Ground"
“HIGHER GROUND” My rating: B- (Opens Oct. 14 at the Tivoli and Glenwood at Red Bridge)
109 minutes | Audience rating: R
The loss of religious faith is a challenging, hot-button topic for a filmmaker’s directing debut.
So much could go wrong.
“Higher Ground,” from actress Vera Farmiga, doesn’t go wrong, exactly, but it never really adds up.
Working from a screenplay by Carolyn S. Briggs (adapting her memoir This Dark World), the film chronicles the gradual falling away from Christianity of Corinne (Farmiga), a young wife and mother.
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