Master Gardener

The film about gardening you never knew you needed that blooms into something completely unexpected.

None of this rang true or had enough going on to sustain anything but a passing interest. It just didn't hang together or amount to much in the end and along with that felt a little contrived and uncomfortable in it's own skin. Disappointing.

It's Greatly expected Les Miserables in a secret garden with an unimaginable conclusion. The diary of the gardener takes the audience into his serene world of patience and flowers. The feudal relics of fading Haverhill lineage and Narvel's past and history signals that a new age is dawning and the role of Narvel is made evermore crucial for the survival of tradition. Two people chewed and spat out are claimed back by the nature in this visually mesmerizing story. Excellent performance by the cast to make the story memorable. It's a unique tale with a dramatic entanglements that's certainly worth a watch.

Um roteiro simplório, com pouca emoção e ritmo irregular. Parece um carrossel de parquinho em marcha lenta. As atuações, as referências, as sequências... tudo mediano.

Lethargic with a ridiculous plot this may be one of the worst movies I have ever watched.

Wow, bad acting, ugly garden, implausible plot, and old guy marries young girl again. Plus incorrect horticultural references. Top ten for bad movies.

Master Gardener is a dark and brooding film about escaping your past and finding peace in your life. Writer director Paul Schrader always makes interesting films and this one is no different, if not in his top tier. Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who works for a wealthy dowager, Norma Haverhill, on a large country estate. Roth is buttoned down and we discover he has a dark and disturbing past. We learn more of this through the film via a series of flashbacks. When Norma's niece comes to the estate to work under him it turns his safe world upside down. Soon they need to leave the estate and urgently sort their life out together. This is a meticulous film with a deliberate tone, if a little stiff and one note at times. It's dark and deliberate, although sometimes to a fault. Performances are fine, especially Joel Edgerton as the disturbed Roth. A low key film that intrigues if not totally satisfies.

I thought it was really good. Some people think it was an era from long ago, you are kidding yourself. Skin heads, proud boys, KKK or whatever they are calling themselves these days, they exist all over. I think this movie gives hope that people can change, and it’s about forgiveness. Good movie.

This movie is fantastic! Edgerton is great. Everyone is great. That said, Weaver’s character is creepy as eff. Such an eerie slow burning movie.

Y'all need to put more respect on Paul Schrader's name. I cried. Edgerton & Swindell are really good in this. One of the more underrated films of 2023.