Silence (2016)

BBC Two, 11.15pm ★★★★★

Martin Scorsese’s brutal, spiritual epic will scald your soul. Silence is the sound of the voice of God. It’s the answer He gives to every question posed by Father Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield), a Portuguese Jesuit priest who is sent undercover to rural 17th-century Japan, in a period where Christians were being repressed by the Shogunate. Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Ciarán Hinds co-star. Spectacular.