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This film is edited by Leslie Jones and produced by Megan Ellison and JoAnne Sellar.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master riffs on the early roots and allure of Scientology with the same compelling strangeness and heady intensity that the American writer-director brings to his other films. The Master is another tale of warped power and fanatical delusions, and it sees Anderson on captivating form as a director who is able to surprise and impress with scene after scene.
In the years after WWII, an American intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) creates a religion. When he meets a troubled drifter (Joaquin Phoenix), he invites the man to help him spread the new faith. As their congregation increases, the drifter begins to question the religion he once accepted and the mentor who gave his life direction.
Reviews
“Altogether amazing… It is a movie about the lure and folly of greatness that comes as close as anything I’ve seen recently to being a great movie. There will be skeptics, but the cult is already forming. Count me in.” – New York Times
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