Master Gardener
The guy who wrote Taxi Driver is at it again. Master Gardener, as so often with Paul Schrader, is a film about humans in need of redemption, a worthless humanity rather than a wicked world. Schrader, it comes as no surprise to learn, was raised in the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church. Joel Edgerton’s Narvel Roth could almost be an older version of Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle. Roth is a guy with a complicated history – see the alarming tattoos all over his back and chest – who has put his past behind him and now leads a sedate, austere life as the head gardener on an estate owned by grande dame Norma Haverhill … Read more
