Even death eludes them: not only the "sweetness" of the white-bearded Bhishma's timely death, but also the resounding, heroic/anti-heroic death of an Ian Curtis or even one modelled on the bathos-ridden suicide of Bruno in Stroszek that we might have been expecting from the chicken à la Herzog that was proffered at the beginning of the book …

Being in Lieu reflects on Dogma.

… the pain is deeper now, the desperation more acute, the catastrophe more imminent.

Paul Bowes reviews Dogma at Amazon.co.uk.