Quite possibly the least gangster gangster film ever made, A Most Violent Year sees Chandor enhance his directional abilities to all new levels and where Margin Call saw him master the art of the script and his actors and All is Lost the art of storytelling almost entirely through visuals, A Most Violent Year sees a combination of highly impressive elements combine to create one of the year’s most fully formed and competent films.Ī Most Violent Year is one of the those films that’s so finely constructed, you’d be hard pressed to find a single weak component, right down to the way in which violence doesn’t drive the film as the title may suggest, merely plays out in its background as a master puppeteer, as heard frequently in the radio chatter our characters listen to. Chandor is very quickly becoming one of the industry’s brightest young talents and a model of consistency. With his debut in 2011 with the brilliant dramatization of the early beginnings of the GFC in the Oscar nominated Margin Call, his follow up with the brave and well liked All is Lostand now with the critically acclaimed and somewhat forgotten about third feature A Most Violent Year, filmmaker J.C. “When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life, and that I can’t do” Plot – Set against the backdrop of New York City 1981, one of the most violent years recorded in the city’s history, businessman Abel Morales (Isaac) and his wife Anna (Chastain) struggle to close a property deal that could see them either make or break their company in the midst of ongoing criminal acts being perpetrated against their employees and property. ![]() Cast – Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, Albert Brooks, Elyes Gabel, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola
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