Schrader’s upcoming crime thriller stars Joel Edgerton as the gardener of an American estate who is forced to confront his dark past. He panders to his employer, a wealthy widow (Sigourney Weaver). When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great niece, dark secrets from a buried violent past start to get unlocked.” Will “The Master Gardener” complete Schrader’s Bresson trilogy? Is it even a part of it? It seems like it very much is a part of it, with “The Card Counter” and “First Reformed” having started it. Here’s an early reaction of the film that I received from an industry pal of Schrader’s: As mentioned, the film comes after Schrader’s last two critically-acclaimed films, “First Reformed,” and “The Card Counter.” The man is on a late-career artistic streak. “This is about a gardener in a southern plantation who becomes the mentor, and lover, of a mixed race young girl who is “at risk.” We discover the gardener had a past in a white supremacist movement.” “It’s a cocky, confident, weird movie in the vein of Schrader’s ADAM RESURRECTED. Again, don’t know that the planet will bow down in awe, but I found it personal, strange, and totally absorbing. And a lot better (certainly better cast) than THE CARD COUNTER!” Contribute Hire me
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