Rather than following in the vein of its immediate predecessors, “Master Gardener” echoes one of Paul Schrader’s earlier films. “Here, four decades after making ‘American Gigolo,’ the director is offering a response to his own work,” tnyfrontrow writes.
,” are centered on men who start on a path of public virtue and discover a hypocritical swamp of vice beneath their honored uniforms. Both films are marked by a compact, potent unity, in which the protagonists’ guilt-ridden, self-scourging devotions are matched by their quasi-apocalyptic rejections of the world as it goes. The director’s terse, pressurized style follows the course of their mounting furies; these are films of radical politics, radical solutions.
But Narvel has no secrets from Norma. She’s not just his benefactor but also his lover, or, rather, he’s something like her gigolo. He lives in a cottage on her estate, only a short walk from her mansion-like “grand house”; when she summons him to dinner, he dresses up and primps, and the evening ends with her ushering him upstairs, to her bedroom, for sex.
The movie’s irony is in the faux unity of substance and style. Schrader’s direction, with its repertory of images realized by the cinematographer Alexander Dynan, is as severe, strict, and restrained as his protagonist’s sharply disciplined manner. Despite its starkly lucid surfaces, the film is elusive, quizzical, practically iridescent. Schrader appears no more interested in the mind-set of neo-Nazism than he is in whatever political and social ideals Narvel now holds instead.
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