
Gone Baby Gone
2007


“The kingdom come undone.”
1.4K votes
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
Director
Paul SchraderWriter
Streaming availability for India
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Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$3.5M
Revenue
$4.0M
Production Companies

I don't believe I've ever seen a film shot so deliberately. Almost every single angle is framed with precision and intent. Like a Wes Anderson film sapped of any and all whimsy. Many shots linger in a style not often found outside of horror films, in the scenes they intend to deliver the audience a scare that its characters do not see. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

**_Brilliantly shot, excellently written_** > **_Alissa Wilkinson_**: _Do you think of_ First Reformed _as an apocalyptic film?_ > **_Paul Schrader_**: _It depends on what you call "the apocalypse". I think we are seeing the last century of homo sapiens. I don't see a scenario in which homo sapiens emerge from this century in our present form. Now, that's not the end of the world. That's just the end of a species, which evolution has taken to its dead end. All of its intelligence is not enabling it to survive. So, there will be some modification in the world. We may be on the cusp of a_…
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