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Jun 20, 2017 · A chilling coming-of-age tale about a future fascist leader, The Childhood of a Leader addresses the question with formal daring, bracing intelligence and emotional insight – but doesn’t leave us with any easy answers.
Budget. $5 million [5] Box office. $245,546 [6] The Childhood of a Leader is a 2015 historical drama film, co-written, co-produced and directed by Brady Corbet, [7] in his feature film directorial debut. [8] It is loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre 's short story of the same name, published in 1939 in a collection entitled The Wall. [9]
Aug 15, 2016 · The boy’s unruly behaviour and the awkward, oppressive treatment he receives from his parents is clearly meant to mirror and comment on the political goings-on as peace terms are agreed with the ...
- Brady Corbet
- Dave Calhoun
- August 18, 2016
The Childhood of a Leader centres on Prescott (Tom Sweet), a seven-year-old American boy living in a French village in the aftermath of World War I. Prescott’s diplomat father (Liam Cunningham) is working on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles while Prescott’s deeply religious mother (Bérénice Bejo) struggles to deal with the child’s worsening behaviour. Prescott employs ...
Aug 19, 2016 · Something is wrong in this household, in this continent, in this century – and yet it’s inevitable. The adult actors are all excellent, though required to be stooges for Sweet. It takes three parents, several servants, a world war, a corrupt church (Prescott yells “I don’t believe in praying any more” like a mantra) to shape this monster.
Aug 18, 2016 · The Childhood of a Leader's discombobulating contemporary relevance sounds as a warning from a century ago. As the film opens it is 1918, and Prescott (Tom Sweet), a bratty nine-year-old boy, is ...
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Sep 4, 2015 · UK-Hungary-France. 2015. 116 mins. ... in the way the upstairs-downstairs life of a big country house becomes caught up in the secret diplomatic deals that are ... The Childhood of a Leader is in ...
