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The Promised Land (Nikolaj Arcel, 2023).

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The Irish Times

Cannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopic (click for article)

Ali Abbasi film starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong zones in on a twisted early Trump mentor

Tara Brady

Tue May 21 2024 - 08:55

The Apprentice

Director: Ali Abbasi

Cert: None

Genre: DramaStarring: Starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Joe Pingue

Running Time: 2 hrs mins

The Apprentice, which lists Ireland’s Tailored Films among its producers and is showing in competition at the Cannes film festival, zooms in on Cohn’s twisted mentorship of a young Donald Trump. The shadow of Succession casts long over Ali Abbasi’s controversial biopic, not least in the casting of Jeremy Strong as the vulpine Cohn.

Sebastian Stan, who does fine work incorporating Trump’s mannerisms without slipping into parody, can only bumble in Cohn’s presence when they first meet at members’ club in New York. Trump, a rent collector for his father’s property portfolio in a dilapidated city, wants to build a luxury hotel near Grand Central Station. Cohn has the nefarious legal skills to help.

A ruthless mentor, he teaches Trump three essential rules: “Attack. Attack. Attack; Admit nothing. Deny everything; Always claim victory and never admit defeat.” In common with many comic books, the dark master, soon enough, is mastered. Trump grows brasher and stronger as Cohn, enfeebled by AIDS and federal investigations, visibly weakens. The commanding Cohn’s decline dovetails with a dip in the film’s dramatic impact.

Watching how The Apprentice plays in America’s polarised political landscape will be intriguing. The younger Trump recalls nothing if not the ditsy heroines of YA franchises, a harmless haplessness that will not play well with the Blue States. The third-act inclusion of a marital rape scene inspired by Ivana Trump’s divorce deposition – a claim she later retracted – will likely outrage Republicans (and possibly lawyers).

Working in Academy ratio with archival inserts, cinematographer Kasper Tuxen and editor Olivier Bugge Coutté recreate the late 1970s and 1980s to a series of loudly banging tunes selected by David Holmes.

The economical script by Gabriel Sherman, an award-winning biographer and journalist, often strays into a revision of the established story: “You have a face like an orange”, yells Ivana (Maria Bakalova, with a fun performance that lacks the statuesque presence of the first Mrs Trump), during a bust-up.

Director Abbasi has a strong Cannes game. He won the Un Certain Regard award with the disturbing troll picture Border in 2018. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, the star of the Danish-Iranian filmmaker’s impactful serial killer drama Holy Spider, was named best actress on the Croisette in 2022. The Apprentice lacks the gravitas or impact of these earlier films, but it’s a pleasing enough doodle thanks to Stan, Strong, and a lot of period wigs.

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The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske), Joachim Trier (2021)

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Best Film Editing 2021

Winner:

Zola - Joi McMillon

Nominees:

The Lost Daughter - Affonso Gonçalves New Order - Óscar Figueroa & Michel Franco The Power of the Dog - Peter Sciberras Quo Vadis, Aida? - Jaroslaw Kaminski The Worst Person in the World - Olivier Bugge Coutté

Best Original Score 2021

Winner:

The Green Knight - Daniel Hart

Nominees:

Broadcast Signal Intrusion - Ben Lovett Little Fish - Keegan DeWitt Spencer - Jonny Greenwood Swan Song - Jay Wadley The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood

Best Sound Editing 2021

Winner:

Dune - Mark Mangini, Theo Green

Nominees:

Censor - Tim Harrison The Green Knight - Johnny Marshall & Christopher Barnett The Humans - Skip Lievsay In the Earth - Martin Pavey Malignant - Peter Staubli

Best Sound Mixing 2021

Winner:

Memoria - Alkritchalerm Kalaynmitr & Javier Umpierrez

Nominees:

The Disciple - Naren Chandavarkar, Anita Kushawa, Lars Ginzel The Humans - Skip Lievsay, Paul Urmson, Tammy M. Douglas, Chris Chae New Order - Alejandro de Icaza, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc The Power of the Dog - Graeme Stewart & Steve Burgess This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection - Daniel Caleb, James Matthes

Best Visual Effects

Winner:

The Matrix Resurrections

Nominees:

Dune The Green Knight Malignant Swan Song The Tragedy of Macbeth

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Thelma, directed by Joachim Trier, screenplay by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, cinematography by Jakob Ihre, and edit by Olivier Bugge Coutté.

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Girl In The Water - Trailer from Jeppe Ronde on Vimeo.

Girl in the Water: Sajee Apiwong Director: Jeppe Rønde Producers: Patricia Drati Rønde, Edmund Yeo, Tine Fischer Production: Foo Fei Ling Cinematography: Wan Chun Hung Edit: Olivier Bugge Coutté, Morten Giese, Edmund Yeo Colorist & VFX: Daniel de Vue

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Crewet er landet: Her er det chefklipper Olivier Bugge Coutté og chefinstruktør Joachim Trier, der varmer op til #THELMA-galla i #Toronto. Dansk premiere 30. november. Via @camerafilmdk @tiff_net (her: Maison Mercer)

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Come4 - The Lover from Jeppe Ronde on Vimeo.

Director: Jeppe Ronde DoP: Sebastian Blenkov Edit: Olivier Bugge Coutté Producer: Jean Ozannat & Malene Dyhring Colorist: Daniel de Vue Henry de Czar & BaconCPH

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Copenhagen Cowboy (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2023).

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Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017).

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Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017).