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A Master Builder

A Master Builder

2014
Drama
2h 10m
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act. (imdb)
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A Master Builder

2014
Drama
2h 10m
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Rated 19 Jul 2015
73
69th
Joyce's crass overacting is pretty disconcerting. Seriously...I'm convinced her standing next to Nicolas Cage would automacially put him in a blind spot. Or make him disappear. Otherwise really cool. Did look very digital and like a TV movie but the Demme is still strong in this one. Impressed by Wallace Shawn. Confused by the weird tower fetishism. :D
Rated 01 Nov 2015
70
75th
Jonathan Demme directs a film dedicated to Louis Malle, who directed "My Dinner with Andre", whose writers and stars, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, reunite 33 years later to write and star in this adaptation of an Ibsen play. I hope that was clear. Julie Hagerty (also an old Shawn co-star) is here as well. The film totters between very theatrical and a little hammy (mainly Lisa Joyce overdoes it), but it is definitely a complex and intense, closeup-heavy chamber drama.
Rated 11 Sep 2017
79
80th
i need to read some Ibsen! ...judging by the wikipedia summary, I really like the spin Shawn&co gave the story. A non-stop rollercoaster of images and emotions, intimately captured by Demme.
Rated 04 Mar 2020
78
66th
Great script backed by curiously intense performances.
Rated 05 Mar 2020
60
25th
On one hand, you have a fairly earnest stage play; and, on the other, you have Lisa Joyce sounding like an Alexa trying to laugh for the first time. So. Much. Laughing. I can't think of another film where the laughing stood out. I think I'll have a nightmare about laughing tonight.
Rated 14 Sep 2021
75
41st
Our life’s end is inevitable, and the dogme to modern cinema is a great addition for a dying man’s flux. I’m a bit let down by some of the dialogue between Hal and Hilde, although it does bring a fine conclusion to this collection of chamber cinema.
Rated 09 Nov 2022
70
42nd
The best thing this film has to offer is it's cast, who are really extraordinary dealing with a difficult play and odd staging by delivering really fine performances. Shawn could not be farther from Ibsen's conception of this character (Burt Lancaster in his waning years seems to be the ideal), but he does a really fine job ... he's magnetic in a part most folks will find utterly loathsome. Haggerty is magnificent and reinforces the fact that we do not see enough of her.

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