Director: Paul Schrader
Writer: Paul Schrader
Release Date: 5th November 2021
Hot Rating: 💥💥
The Card Counter can be seen as an accumulation of the ideas that Paul Schrader has been grappling with over his four-decade career. Protagonist-gambler Tell (Oscar Isaac) is an Iraq war veteran whose isolated existence is interrupted when he meets Cirk (Tye Sheridan), who wants his assistance in executing a vengeful plan on a military colonel. Much like in Schrader’s last film, First Reformed, there is a growing sense of dread that accompanies the drama here. At times to the film’s disservice, the audience is overwhelmed with a soundtrack of slowcore tracks and ominous whispers. The visuals, too, are highly vivid, maturing with the same scatterbrain logic that Schrader appears to have sketched his scenes. What The Card Counter lacks however, is cohesion. Isaac does his best with the convolutions of Schrader’s plot and relationships, but the result is simply too forbidding to ignite viewers’ sympathies.
Writer: Paul Schrader
Release Date: 5th November 2021
Hot Rating: 💥💥
The Card Counter can be seen as an accumulation of the ideas that Paul Schrader has been grappling with over his four-decade career. Protagonist-gambler Tell (Oscar Isaac) is an Iraq war veteran whose isolated existence is interrupted when he meets Cirk (Tye Sheridan), who wants his assistance in executing a vengeful plan on a military colonel. Much like in Schrader’s last film, First Reformed, there is a growing sense of dread that accompanies the drama here. At times to the film’s disservice, the audience is overwhelmed with a soundtrack of slowcore tracks and ominous whispers. The visuals, too, are highly vivid, maturing with the same scatterbrain logic that Schrader appears to have sketched his scenes. What The Card Counter lacks however, is cohesion. Isaac does his best with the convolutions of Schrader’s plot and relationships, but the result is simply too forbidding to ignite viewers’ sympathies.
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