Master Gardener

The crime thriller Master Gardener present us Narvel Roth, a horticulturist devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful and historic estate, and pleasing his employer, a wealthy dowager, Mrs. Norm Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her rebellious and troubled great-niece as an apprentice, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.

Duration: 111
Production year: 2022
Country: United States of America
Subtitles: EN, Subtitles: PT

Venice Film Festival 2022 - Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement

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Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader was born on July 22, 1946, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Born and raised in an ultra-puritan community of local Dutch Calvinists, he didn’t have access to the world of cinema until entering college, whence he was forbidden to watch movies by his parents. He entered the university to study theology, but later decided to switch to cinemhe started working as a film critic and, at the same time, studying Film Theory. In 1972, he wrote the celebrated book Transcendental Style In Film: Ozu, Dreyer Bresson and began writingscreenplays.

After the success, in 1976, of the screenplay for Taxi Driver, Schrader started directing his own films. His most recent feature films First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021) and Master Gardener (2022) have been described by Schrader as parts of a modern trilogy.

Original title: Master Gardener

Paul Schrader

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