'The Beloved' Review: Javier Bardem Plays a Tyrannical Filmmaker in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's Father-Daughter Drama
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Summary
Rodrigo Sorogoyen's Spanish drama 'The Beloved' stars Javier Bardem as Esteban Martinez, a hotheaded filmmaker who is a "brilliant asshole" incapable of making great art without tyrannical behavior. The film explores fatherhood and its sins, following the director as he casts the leading female role. Sorogoyen experiments with multiple visual formats in this father-daughter drama.
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Sorogoyen experiments with many visual formats to bewildering effect here
now turns his camera on fatherhood and its sins
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