I saw The Forgiven, starring Jessica Chastain-The 355, X_Men:Dark Phoenix; Ralph Fiennes-the Bond movies, the Harry Potter movies; Matt Smith-Morbius, Doctor Who_tv and Said Taghmaoui-John Wick:Chapter 3_Parabellum, Wonder Woman.
This is a moral/character study about a married couple that have an accident while going to a party in Morocco. Jessica and Ralph are the couple that are traveling by car at night to a wild party being held by their friend Matt in the middle of the desert when they hit a local boy and kill him. They take the boy's body on to the party and tell Matt that it was an accident, that the kid jumped out in front of their car and it couldn't be avoided. The police are called and dismiss it as an accident and leave without the body-the party goers are told that someone will come for it later. Someone does; the kid's Muslim father, and he doesn't speak English. Said is the father's translator. Ralph is told that he must return with the father and his son to bury the boy-it's their tradition, they are told. Ralph goes willingly to smooth things over with the grieving father but secrets start surfacing that make you question how things really are. The closer you get to the end of the movie, the more secrets are reveled as to what actually happened. FYI: The film's credits are shown in reverse. The end credits are at the beginning of the movie-gaffers, editing, music, etc,-followed by the cast and the title of the movie and then at the end of the movie, there are no credits; it just says 'The End' and the screen goes blank.
It's rated R for language, drug use, violence and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 57 minutes.
It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it would be alright, as a rental.
This is a moral/character study about a married couple that have an accident while going to a party in Morocco. Jessica and Ralph are the couple that are traveling by car at night to a wild party being held by their friend Matt in the middle of the desert when they hit a local boy and kill him. They take the boy's body on to the party and tell Matt that it was an accident, that the kid jumped out in front of their car and it couldn't be avoided. The police are called and dismiss it as an accident and leave without the body-the party goers are told that someone will come for it later. Someone does; the kid's Muslim father, and he doesn't speak English. Said is the father's translator. Ralph is told that he must return with the father and his son to bury the boy-it's their tradition, they are told. Ralph goes willingly to smooth things over with the grieving father but secrets start surfacing that make you question how things really are. The closer you get to the end of the movie, the more secrets are reveled as to what actually happened. FYI: The film's credits are shown in reverse. The end credits are at the beginning of the movie-gaffers, editing, music, etc,-followed by the cast and the title of the movie and then at the end of the movie, there are no credits; it just says 'The End' and the screen goes blank.
It's rated R for language, drug use, violence and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 57 minutes.
It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it would be alright, as a rental.