A powerful story of a flawed preacher who searches for redemption in a small town in Louisiana.  Masterful performance by Robert Duvall as the preacher.  Forget the token Billy-Bob Thornton appearence, which doesn't seem to amount to a whole lot - Duvall carries this movie with his sheer charisma.  Recommended.

It took me two tries to get through this movie.  The first 20-30 minutes are incredibly slow and my initial impression was that Bjork had made a horrible mistake in trying to act.

Thankfully, I gave the movie a second chance a day later, starting from the point where I'd given up and thank god I did.  What starts off as a very slow, shaky (literally) film turns into an entertaining story of a young Czech woman in rural America (Minnesota maybe?) who is going blind, and escapes the difficulties of day-to-day life through musical daydreams, which are stunning in the same way Bjork's videos make an impression.  Then the movie makes a turn and twists its way to a terribly sad ending that, I'll admit, made me a bit weepy. 

A hard movie to get through, but in the end quite rewarding.  If nothing else, fast-forwarding to the musical scenes (helpfully italicized in the scene selections menu) will give you a good dose of Bjork and the amazingly-revolutionary 100-camera cinematography (if you're a techie type be sure to check out the extra documentary on this) of Bobby Mueller (whose work I've enjoyed in "Ghost Dog" and I look forward to in the soon-to-arrive-from-Netflix "24 Hour Party People")