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THE CARD COUNTER (2021)
DIRECTOR: Paul Schrader
CAST: Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish, Willem Dafoe
🎞️ Will is an ex-military man and professional card player who decides to help a boy related to his past execute his revenge plan.
🎬 Film directed by Paul Schrader, who has done other projects like The Reverend or Risen Adam. The composers of the original soundtrack, Robert Levon Been and Giancarlo Vulcano, deserve special recognition, of whom I will speak in depth later.
📃 The part of the script is the one that can generate the most controversy. As many others state, the plot can seem slow and somewhat repetitive even though the main theme is what you are looking for. It tries to carry the tension with a slow but overwhelming cooking, with a mysterious main character that takes you into that inner world wracked with guilt and that way of trying to balance with the past. One of the few drawbacks in terms of the script that I can put is having wasted the character played by Sheridan, with a background almost as interesting as that of the protagonist, but left in a secondary plane.
🎭 Oscar Isaac plays a dazzling role, helped by the creation of the character he embodies, cold and calculating. Tye Sheridan and Tiffany Haddish accompany this protagonist, but the one who can never be left unnamed, no matter how little footage he has on screen, is Willem Dafoe, sublime in everything he does year after year.
🎶 Levon Been and Vulcano do a more than remarkable job accompanying these slow moments without action in the story, mainly with a fantastic use of synthesizers and strings, which maintain the tension and raise it at specific moments.
🍿 Highly recommended film, although I highly doubt that it is suitable for all audiences, mainly due to those slow moments and lack of action in the plot, although excellent at times, and with a sublime performance by Isaac.
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