Anyone interested in passions, taboos and forgiveness in the Bible Belt should see Robert Duvall's brilliant film The Apostle where Duvall enacts a Southern Baptist Reverend, exuding erotic vibes from his lectern, until he kills his wife's lover in a fit of rage, has to flee from his old place and starts up a new mission in a run-down town deep in Louisiana. Amazing scenes both from the chapels where he's a revered father figure in the first part of the movie and from the swampland town where he starts his own thing.

Duvall wrote, directed and starred in the movie - I'm told many believing Christians down south abhored it, they really should have seen it gives a sympathetic, nuanced picture of Christianity as a force in the Belt. I saw it years ago, should have watched it again last night at a one-off theatre screening but had to cancel.