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Child of God is a 2013 American crime drama film co-written and directed by James Franco, and starring Scott Haze, based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy.
Jul 30, 2014 · With Child of God, however, Franco—together with his co-writer, long-term associate Vince Jolivette—has come up with something distinctive that both captures the atmosphere of McCarthy’s neo-Gothic universe and suggests a consolidation on the director’s As I Lay Dying. Published in 1973, and set in the 1960s in Tennessee, the film is ...
Aug 1, 2014 · “Child of God” starts with Ballard losing every piece of property he owns except his rifle and retreating into the woods. He squats in a vacant shack, finds the body of a dead girl, brings her back to the shed and then starts courting her.
Jul 31, 2014 · Lester is the child of God in the title, “much like yourself perhaps,” Mr. McCarthy writes, although given his dim worldview, the “perhaps” strikes the ear as an all-important and jaundiced...
- 104 min
- Manohla Dargis
Aug 31, 2013 · An extremely faithful, suitably raw but still relatively hemmed-in adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's chilling 1973 novel. By Justin Chang. Cannes: A Look at the Official Selection, by the Numbers 9...
Jul 31, 2014 · A 'Child Of God,' Or Maybe Not The very prolific James Franco directs a Cormac McCarthy adaptation that struggles to overcome a repulsive main character with whom it's almost impossible to...
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May 18, 2018 · Directed by acclaimed filmmaker James Franco, and based on the chilling novel by Cormac McCarthy, Child of God is a dark Southern Gothic Film that tells the provocative story of Lester Ballad (Scott Haze), a dispossessed, violent man, attempting to exist outside the social order.
