Master Gardener Review: Paul Schrader's Loose Trilogy Ends With A Whimper

MasterGardener Review: Paul Schrader's Loose Trilogy Ends With A Whimper

Paul Schrader's loose trilogy, comprising First Reformed, The Card Counter, and now Master Gardener, has centered lonely men coping with the sins of their past while searching for a way forward in a world that feels alien. In Master Gardener, Joel Edgerton stars as Narvel Roth, a man who tends to the vast and abundant gardens of Sigourney Weaver's Mrs. Haverhill, seemingly the only person who knows about his violent neo-Nazi past.

Underneath all the strife, isolation, and sadness, though, is a clear sentimentality that stands in contrast to the uglier elements of the film's plot. When Maya enters the picture, a new layer is revealed to Weaver's character, one that, like Narvel's rage, sits right below her prim surface. Mrs.

The film also has the disadvantage of coming at the tale end of this trilogy. Its first entry, First Reformed, earned Schrader a Best Original Screenplay nomination. While The Card Counter didn't reach similar levels of acclaim, it was an overall sturdier piece of storytelling that looked at man's moral responsibility with a more keen eye.

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