Gael Garcia Bernal in ‘The King’

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I just read in Vogue about a new film that sounds really good. And no, it’s not only because Gael Garcia Bernal is in it…
You can watch a trailer here and below is the Vogue review:
If movies have taught us anything, it’s to beware of mysterious strangers. Equal parts thriller and allegory, The King stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Elvis Sandow, a charismatic ex-Navy man who goes to Corpus Christi, Texas, to reconnect with his birth father, David Sandow (William Hurt), a onetime free spirit who years ago abandoned him and his now-deceased Mexican mother. But David has become a Baptist minister and doesn’t exactly rejoice in this walking reminder of his sinful past. Spurred by rejection, Elvis begins insinuating himself into Dad’s new life, seducing the preacher’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Malerie (Pell James), and teaching his hyperdevout son, Paul (Paul Dano), the dangerous truth about snakes in the garden. The King was directed by James Marsh, who not only wins stingingly good performances from Bernal, James and Hurt (he’s never been better) but pulls off the rare feat of portraying evangelical American without condescension.

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