The Master ~ Art Cinema
Drama
English/R/138 min
A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a Naval veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
“It's a film bristling with vivid moments and unbeatable acting, but its interest is not in tidy narrative satisfactions but rather the excesses and extremes of human behavior, the interplay of troubled souls desperate to find their footing” - Kenneth Turan , Los Angeles Times
“This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.” - A.O. Scott, New York Times
