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Child of God

2013

James Franco

Scott Haze, James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack ...

5.6

586

Drama A violent-prone loaner moves to the mountains of Tennessee and lives in a cave. A dispossessed, violent man who's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Lester Ballard (Scott Haze) descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"An extremely faithful, suitably raw (...) adaptation that compares favorably with his earlier films, yet falls short of achieving a truly galvanizing portrait of social and sexual deviance"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Raw and unpolished (...) dominated by Scott Haze’s fearless performance (...) there’s a weird purity to the storytelling even at its untidiest, which enables Franco to remain true to the spirit of McCarthy’s vernacular lyricism"	POS
United States	Oliver Lyttelton IndieWire	"The whole thing feels sort of tossed off, like it was made by film students over a couple of weekends"	NEG

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