{"id":15894,"date":"2023-10-03T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2023-10-03T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:31:11","slug":"master-gardener-2022-paul-schrader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15894","title":{"rendered":"Master Gardener (2022, Paul Schrader)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diminishing returns on the “lonely man with violent past pushed to the edge” series… dialogue scenes are off, stilted, and it’s all dialogue scenes. Voiceover cover-up indicates something has gone wrong between page and screen. Looks really nice though.<\/p>\n

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Sigourney asks her ex-nazi gardener\/lover Joel to take on her troubled grandniece Maya (comic superhero Quintessa Swindell), but he gets more invested than anyone intended, helping her detox and dealing with her violent garden-wrecking ex. Abandoned by Sigourney and by Parole Officer Gabriel, at least they’ve got each other.<\/p>\n

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Vikram Murthi in The Nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Master Gardener<\/em>‘s final scene … a soon-to-wed Narvel and Maya dancing on the porch of a cabin they’re rebuilding together as Schrader’s camera slowly pulls back, lending them both privacy and dignity. Schrader has explicitly swiped the ending of Bresson’s Pickpocket<\/em> on at least three occasions … But the ending of Master Gardener<\/em> almost scrubs the Pickpocket<\/em> ending of its tragic, unfulfilled dimension: Narvel and Maya’s silent expression of love doesn’t need to bypass any barriers because the two have already torn them down. A director whose career trudges on against all odds, Schrader finally lands somewhere near contentment, reveling in the warmth of a second chance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diminishing returns on the “lonely man with violent past pushed to the edge” series… dialogue scenes are off, stilted, and it’s all dialogue scenes. Voiceover cover-up indicates something has gone wrong between page and screen. Looks really nice though. Sigourney asks her ex-nazi gardener\/lover Joel to take on her troubled grandniece Maya (comic superhero Quintessa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,3161,248,1747,1446],"class_list":["post-15894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-joel-edgerton","tag-nazis","tag-paul-schrader","tag-sigourney-weaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15948,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions\/15948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}