The Master
THE MASTER is an epic 70mm story of tiny details that plays out viscerally on the most complicated expanse imaginable: the human face. Freddie Quell, a snarling, feral WWII veteran and drifter, wears a mask of rage and horniness that is as grotesque and primal and pained as few visages in recent memory. As Lancaster Dodd, the larger-than-life leader of a patch-work psychoanalytic self-help group/cult called “The Cause”, Phillip Seymour Hoffman projects calculated empathy and logic. He is a rational thinker, a dreamer, an Orson Welles-ian bullshitter with perhaps just as much madness as Freddie Quell, though he’s created an outlet for his boundless energy – birthing a new religious movement. THE MASTER is about many things, but at it’s core, it is a love story between two men with titanic egos and wills, who seem at first glance to be diametric opposites yet may simply be shadows of each other. (James Ponsoldt)
- Joaquin Phoenix - Freddie Quell
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lancaster Dodd
- Amy Adams - Peggy
- Laura Dern - Helen Sullivan
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Jr.
- Mihai Mâlaimare
- Leslie Jones
- Peter McNulty
- Jonny Greenwood
- Jack Fisk
- David Crank
- Mark Bridges
The Weinstein Film Company
