At its worst, First Match is
a gripping drama centered on the relationship between a teen and her estranged father.
Not exact matches
This year, Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Elena) returned to Cannes with his
drama Leviathan, the story that is described as a
gripping parable of class, faith and corruption,
centering on a land dispute between a small - time mechanic and his local authorities that reaps unimaginable consequences.
It's the last of these that repeatedly takes
center stage during the course of Malick's fifth magnum opus, as a title - card quote from the Book of Job intriguingly open this metaphysical investigation into suffering and forgiveness — a bibilical reference to set the stage for a
drama gripped by the question of why a father, and our heavenly Father, might hurt the very ones he claims to love.