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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

The writings of Leo Tolstoy have given British director Bernard Rose rich material in the past, particularly The Death of Ivan Ilych, which, ingeniously appended to the life of a venal Hollywood agent, became ivansxtc. in 1999. This adaptation of Tolstoy's story Master and Man is a far more avant-garde affair, starring Rose's regular collaborator Danny Huston as a ruthless California property developer named Basil. On Boxing Day, having heard of property foreclosures in Colorado, Basil abandons his wife and family to hunt greedily for bargains. He's taken on his quest by local taxi driver Nick (Matthew Jacobs), a man whose world is slowly falling apart around him. The wintry journey through ice and snow, intertwined with snatched insights into both men's unhappy home lives and psyches, suggests that little good can come of this, but any such portentous tension soon fades. Huston, as ever, does the devil's work to perfection, but, with no one to like - let alone root for - this soon becomes a very long and tiresome slog indeed.

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Cast

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BasilDanny Huston
NickMatthew Jacobs
NathalieEdie Dakota
MarianneLisa Enos
RosemaryJo Farkas
CynthiaJulie Marcus
CarlaLyne Renee
MarthaMorgan Walsh

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DirectorBernard Rose

Details

Theatrical distributor
Independent Distribution
Released on
2012-12-21
Languages
English
Available on
DVD
Formats
Colour
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