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The Childhood of a Leader

Drama

2016, Movie, 1h 56min

A child’s angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses- shattering feature debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST). A powerhouse international cast led by Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo headlines this dark domestic nightmare, set amid the turmoil of World War I and its aftermath, in which the young son of an American diplomat living in France gradually learns to manipulate the adults around him—a monstrous coming of age that ominously parallels the rising tide of fascism in Europe. This stylistically fearless tour de force reaches fever-pitch delirium through ravishing cinematography and a thunderous score by Scott Walker.

"The Childhood of a Leader" — drama movie produced in Hungary, UK, Canada, Belgium, France and USA and released in 2016. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.2 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 56min. "The Childhood of a Leader" is currently available to stream on Mubi, The Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime ⎥ AMC+ and for rent and to buy on Apple TV, Amazon Store and Fandango at Home. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

Country: Hungary,United Kingdom,Canada,Belgium,France,United States

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Reviews

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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This steely, sinister and utterly gripping movie is the feature debut of 28-year-old actor-turned-director Brady Corbet.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Godfrey Cheshire

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With its elegant Vermeer lighting, cinematographer LolCrawley renders the family’s house as a character with its own moods and secrets...

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

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... a tour of the printing presses, paternoster elevators, and mazes of power that ends with a convulsive blur of bodies crowding in a public square.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Phil De Semlyen

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...Corbet subverts his Freudian nightmare in unexpected ways.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Wendy Ide

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...an impressive first film that marks Corbet as a talent to watch.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Hynek Pallas

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...en obehagligt bra film som innehåller biografiska fakta om några av 1900-talets värsta diktatorer och som i eftertexterna meddelar att den bär referenser till Hannah Arendt, Robert Musil och Jean-Paul Sartre.

Read full review at Dagens Nyheter

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In the aftermath of World War I, a young American boy named Prescott moves to France with his German mother and American diplomat father. As he witnesses his father's role in the Paris Peace Conference, Prescott begins to develop a fascist ideology, influenced by his parents' authoritarianism and his own experiences with manipulation and control. This chilling drama follows Prescott's transformation from a privileged child to a terrifying ego, hinting at the rise of a future dictator.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Childhood of a Leader include Miss Meadows, Mud, Detachment, The Help, Moneyball, Burnt.