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“Even when it falters, ‘Master Gardener’ speaks from a place the filmmaker has always worked, with one foot in the character-building of ‘slow cinema,’ and the other in spasms of violence,” writes Tribune critic phillipstribune.

and now, starring Joel Edgerton, “Master Gardener.” Old-fashioned in its pacing, but not really part of any fashion, new or old, other than Schrader’s, it’s a steely, flawed but fascinating affront to most anything else playing theaters right now.Somewhere near New Orleans, the serene Gracewood Gardens estate flourishes under the supervision of Narvel Roth. In his journal, read in voiceover, he expounds on the life cycles of plants, flowers and different types of gardens throughout history.

In the film’s present day, Narvel appears to be a repentant sinner, and a 10-year success story in a federal witness protection program. But Maya’s rough crowd, and her addiction and an abusive sometime boyfriend, brings out the beast within. In the later scenes, Narvel follows the imminent-violence blueprints laid out by everything from “Rolling Thunder” to “Taxi Driver” and other films hinging on a lost male, with a pen and a gun, saving a younger female from purgatory.

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