“The fetid atmosphere is deliciously maintained in a film that boasts an invigorating clash between steady accretion and high bombast.”
Tom Sweet plays Prescott, the unhappy 10-year-old son of an American career diplomat (Liam Cunningham), who is in France in 1919 working on the Treaty of Versailles. What the young Prescott witnesses helps mould his political beliefs, while his dysfunctional family helps to nurture his ever-growing ego... Loosely inspired by the early years of 20th-century dictators, the feature debut from Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) is a chilling study of power, pride, and the making of tyranny - and boasts and a thunderous, award-winning score by Scott Walker.