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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 about a deeply disadvantaged, and increasingly ...
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. It was selected to be screened in the official competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and was an official selection of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival .
Child of God. Vince Jolivette, James Franco. Novel: Cormac McCarthy. A violent-prone loaner moves to the mountains of Tennessee and lives in a cave. A dispossessed, violent man who's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Lester Ballard (Scott Haze ...
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Rated 1/5 Stars • 06/24/23. James Franco has to be given credit for tackling adaptations of literary works that nobody else would consider touching, including Cormac McCarthy's Child of God. In ...
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Aug 31, 2013 · Venice Film Review: ‘Child of God’. An extremely faithful, suitably raw but still relatively hemmed-in adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's chilling 1973 novel. Moving right along from his well ...
Aug 1, 2014 · “Child of God.” MPAA rating: R for disturbing aberrant sexual content, nudity, language and some violence. Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes. At ArcLight Hollywood.
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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 ...