Higher Ground will impact your life

By  GalaTView Staff

Photos cortesy: SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

Vera Farmiga, Donna Murphy, Dagmara Domincyk, Joshua Leonard & John Hawkes

Written and Directed by Vera Farmiga

Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, Higher Ground, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by Carolyn S. Briggs’ memoir, This Dark World (screenplay by Carolyn S. Briggs and Tim Metcalfe & Carolyn S. Briggs), the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman’s struggles with belief, love, and trust in human relationships as well as in God. Eventually giving herself over to a radical New Testament church. Amidst her community of self-described “Jesus Freaks,” Carolyn’s daily life consists of hours of Bible study, alternative family practices and bracing for the oncoming Rapture.

Vera Farmiga told us in an interview for GalaTView: “Honestly to be in this project was like being at school. Having a family is a huge responsibility; she wants to have a version of her own family when she was a child. In our imagination we might have many things about a good marriage, so knowledge’s person is different so religion is becoming in an issue for her marriage begins to unravel that Carolyn dares to question the religious dogma she has embraced for her entire adult life. In this case she has to explore many roads like the emotional road, spiritual road, and reflection is a good point to discuss in this movie.”