Paul Schrader’s 'The Basics of Philosophy' Premieres at Venice Film Festival
Director Paul Schrader unveiled his latest introspective drama at the Venice Film Festival, starring Jack Huston as a man grappling with past trauma and difficult moral questions. Critics have noted the film’s unflinching examination of taboo subjects within Schrader’s signature style.
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The Basics of Philosophy review – Paul Schrader back to his cool, cruel best
Venice film festival When a figure from his past turns up to a family funeral, a college professor faces an agonising dilemma that makes him question his own morality and whether he can change Paul Schrader is back with his most successful picture since First Reformed in 2018. It’s a stereotypical Schrader study of masculinity in some ways, about a man agonising over moral choice and ethical behaviour while – as so often in Schrader’s movies – reading and writing philosophy in an austerely fu...
By Peter Bradshaw
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In an endlessly impressive filmography either as a screenwriter for Martin Scorsese-directed classics like Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull, to his own prodigious output as a director-writer of about 30 movies including Hardcore, American Gigolo, Affliction, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters and all the way up to more recent […]
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