Nobody's a saint in Spanish Civil War epic

John Paul II called Josemaria Escriva the “Saint of Ordinary Life.” That’s the most recent man beatified talking about the most recent man to be canonized. But there’s nothing ordinary about the life of a saint — even one who preached that we can become holy simply through our quotidian lives. Doing so takes us into uncharted territories, land that used to be labeled on maps, in Latin, as “here there be dragons.” That’s what Robert (Dougray Scott) finds when the London journalist is charged with investigating Escriva, then a candidate for canonization. He discovers that his estranged father. Manolo, who lives in Madrid, knew Escriva as a child and later attended seminary with him. In fact, the two men have a deeper connection than that, even as their paths diverged: Escriva (Charlie Cox) becomes a man of God, while Manolo (Wes Bentley) leaves the Church to become one of the many Spaniards fighting in the country’s protracted civil war. It is in battle that Manolo meets the woman with whom he’ll become obsessed, a Hungarian revolutionary who came to Spain to find some purpose (Olga Kurylenko from “Quantum of Solace”). As in most films about war, betrayal is a central theme here.