The Master (2012)
Country: US
Technical: col 144m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Synopsis:
1950, and an alcoholic and mentally unstable former seaman falls under the tutelage of the leader of a cult known as The Cause. Part seer, part charlatan, this man seems to appreciate the misfit for his essential self and offer a form of therapy to free him from his demons.
Review:
Subjectively styled, free-form portrait of two complementary individuals, following their sometimes stormy, mutually dependent relationship but ultimately offering little insight into what drives their roving spirits. The film is a thinly disguised account of the early days of the church of scientology, and offers another in a line of larger than life patriarchs in the director's work. Its crowning achievement, though, may well be the two lead performances, that succeed in suggesting real people with all their complexities, eliciting empathy and revulsion in equal measure.
Country: US
Technical: col 144m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Synopsis:
1950, and an alcoholic and mentally unstable former seaman falls under the tutelage of the leader of a cult known as The Cause. Part seer, part charlatan, this man seems to appreciate the misfit for his essential self and offer a form of therapy to free him from his demons.
Review:
Subjectively styled, free-form portrait of two complementary individuals, following their sometimes stormy, mutually dependent relationship but ultimately offering little insight into what drives their roving spirits. The film is a thinly disguised account of the early days of the church of scientology, and offers another in a line of larger than life patriarchs in the director's work. Its crowning achievement, though, may well be the two lead performances, that succeed in suggesting real people with all their complexities, eliciting empathy and revulsion in equal measure.
Country: US
Technical: col 144m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Synopsis:
1950, and an alcoholic and mentally unstable former seaman falls under the tutelage of the leader of a cult known as The Cause. Part seer, part charlatan, this man seems to appreciate the misfit for his essential self and offer a form of therapy to free him from his demons.
Review:
Subjectively styled, free-form portrait of two complementary individuals, following their sometimes stormy, mutually dependent relationship but ultimately offering little insight into what drives their roving spirits. The film is a thinly disguised account of the early days of the church of scientology, and offers another in a line of larger than life patriarchs in the director's work. Its crowning achievement, though, may well be the two lead performances, that succeed in suggesting real people with all their complexities, eliciting empathy and revulsion in equal measure.