Regie:
A.J. EdwardsScenario:
A.J. EdwardsCamera:
Matthew J. LloydMuziek:
Hanan TownshendActeurs:
Diane Kruger, Jason Clarke, Wes Bentley, Brit Marling, Braydon Denney, Cameron Williams, McKenzie Blankenship, Ryan McFall, Madison Stiltner, Veanne Cox (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
A simple log cabin in the wild backwoods of Indiana was where Abraham Lincoln, later to become 16th president of the USA, lived from the age of 7 to 21. Lincoln's mother dies when he is nine years old after which his father marries a widow with three children. An introverted boy who teaches himself how to read and write, he feels the loss of his mother keenly, but his step-mother helps him slake his boundless thirst for knowledge. Shot in poetic black-and-white, the dynamic camerawork of The Better Angels visualises three years in the childhood of a man whose struggle against slavery was to make him a legend.
Director A. J Edwards, who has worked as Terrence Malick's editor among other roles, has succeeded in creating his own visual language for his first feature which impressively describes both a young nation striving for a better future as well as the role of the two mother figures in Lincoln's life. A sensual orchestral soundtrack underlines the lyricism of this debut.
(Berlinale)
Acteurs
Diane Kruger
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Joyeux Noël (2005)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Jason Clarke
Australië
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Oppenheimer (2023)
Lawless (2012)
Everest (2015)
Wes Bentley
USA
Beste films:
American Beauty (1999)
Interstellar (2014)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Brit Marling
USA
Beste films:
I Origins (2014)
Another Earth (2011)
Arbitrage (2012)
Braydon Denney
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)
Cameron Williams
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)
McKenzie Blankenship
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)
Ryan McFall
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)
Madison Stiltner
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)
Veanne Cox
USA
Beste films:
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Henry Fool (1997)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Bruce Bayard
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)
Heidi Philipsen
USA
Beste films:
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The Better Angels (2014)
Unfinished Business (2015)
Robert Vincent Smith
Beste films:
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Diane (2018)
The Better Angels (2014)
Wayne Pyle
Beste films:
Unbreakable (2000)
Driveways (2019)
Dare (2009)
Lola Cook
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)
In Our Nature (2012)
World Trade Center (2006)
Byron Bradley
USA
Beste films:
The Better Angels (2014)