Guest of Honour (2019)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 105 minuten
Country:
Canada
Directed by: Atom Egoyan
Stars: David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira and Rossif Sutherland
IMDb score:
5,9 (1.243)
Releasedate: 9 July 2020
Guest of Honour plot
The young teacher Veronica is falsely accused of abuse of power. She is sentenced to prison and, according to Veronica herself, this is a just punishment for the crimes she previously committed. Her father Jim, who works as a food inspector, will do anything to get his daughter out, but she won't accept his help.
Actors and actresses
Jim
Father Greg
Veronica
Mike
Roseangela
Detective Grove
Walter
Anna
Gunter
Indian Restaurant Manager
Reviews & comments
blurp194
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The guest of honor.
Atom Egoyan once again delivers a tour de force on troubled family relationships, and where with any other director it would have degenerated into an unbelievable mess, he creates a masterpiece overflowing with details, absurd situations, and seemingly irrelevant asides, all of which converge into an unavoidable tragedy that is almost impossible to recount.
It's obvious to heap (or even pour?) praise on the performances of David Thewlis and Laysla De Oliveira—and they're inimitably good, there's really no exaggeration to be said about that. Yet, it's also crucial to see how Egoyan places them in their scenes, how the sequences from scene to scene are meticulously accurate, and how the story and character development align. The adoration of Hitchcock cited by my predecessor @Collins could just as easily have been reversed if Hitchcock were still with us.
As you might expect from Egoyan, it's not an easy film to digest, and the countless details make interpreting it an exercise in patience and reflection. Yet, the key scene clearly seems to be the one depicting the title and the cringe-inducingly embarrassing situation it places Thewlis in – brilliant in its portrayal of his inability to form normal relationships and find his place in social situations. But on the other hand, it's also so profoundly sad that it makes the film an admirable, yet also a somewhat grim and laborious masterpiece.
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