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A Master Builder
Directed by
Jonathan Demme
Not Rated
2013
2h 10m
Drama
5.9
82%
56%
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A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
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Cast of A Master Builder
Wallace Shawn
Halvard Solness / Writer / Producer
Julie Hagerty
Mrs. Solness
Larry Pine
Dr. Herdal
Lisa Joyce
Hilde Wangel
Andre Gregory
Knut Brovik / Writer / Producer
Emily Cass McDonnell
Kaia Fosli
Jeff Biehl
Ragnar Brovik
Winsome Brown
Marjorie Graham
Joanna Howard
Sheilagh Weymouth
Jonathan Demme
Director
Henrik Ibsen
Writer
Rocco Caruso
Producer
A Master Builder Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
There is muscle and volume in the performances; but had Demme hung back, and kept things cooler and quieter, the mastery of what Ibsen built, and the agon of his extraordinary hero, would have cast a more looming shadow.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
For a movie that lasts longer than two hours and is made up solely of talking, it's impressive that the story never seems to drag.
Paste Magazine
Andy Crump
Shawn's passion for the material shows through even when the film is at its most tautological. This is a movie crafted with care from top to bottom.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Filmed theater? Absolutely, but also, to my complete surprise, something else again.
The Patriot Ledger
Al Alexander
With all its talk about "towering spires" and "burning, hot boxes," one gets the impression that the deceptively highbrow "A Master Builder" is using innuendo to hide the fact that it's "erections" have little to do with the construction industry.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Though the film makes little effort to open up the play, letting it all unfold, as in the original, within Solness's house - if not his mind - Demme's version intensifies the drama into something oneiric.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
It's a remarkable adaptation, Henrik Ibsen by way of Bob Fosse, a little "All That Jazz" influence in this permutation featuring modern dress and period manners and language, fitted out by a note perfect ensemble.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kristin Tillotson
Surprisingly engaging ...
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
It's the type of symbolic, neurotic, psychologically exhausting film Alvy Singer and Annie Hall would gladly spend hours waiting in line to see.
Orange County Register
Michael Sragow
A film that plays not as a theatrical antique, but as a crackling, profound entry in The Twilight Zone.
Chicago Sun-Times
Hedy Weiss
Shawn veers away from his usual nebbishy persona here and skillfully suggests a master manipulator and shrewdly controlling womanizer driven by insecurities and guilt.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
[Shawn] is so commanding in the part that by the time the film ends, it is almost impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.
Entertainment Weekly
Jason Clark
It doesn't attain the highs of Shawn and Gregory's My Dinner With Andre, but the movie has a jittery intimacy that is appealing.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Enthralling deflation of archetypal egotistical artist, with delicious irony from his perspective. . .Urgent hand-held intimacy, 360-degree close-ups dispense stagey feel.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Mumblecore is not a good look for Ibsen.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
The film will serve as a solid introduction to the play for those unfamiliar with it.
Village Voice
Stephanie Zacharek
A modestly scaled but potent film version of the adaptation, which hews closely to Ibsen's original - except when it doesn't.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A soul-stirring screen adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's brilliant novel about pride, ruthlessness, erotic power, and loss.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
Though A Master Builder is disappointing for not being a great film, it's affecting as another record of Shawn and Gregory's passion for theater.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Jonathan Demme makes loving sport of the trust his actors have clearly placed in him, erecting for them a monument to the joys and terrors of walking an emotional high wire.
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