The Childhood of a Leader (2016)
Directed by Brady Corbet
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
1 connection found
View:
1 connections, in both directions
What critics compared The Childhood of a Leader to
In line with the thematic focus of The Childhood of a Leader, Corbet’s debut, The Brutalist is about a new society rising from the ashes of an old world order.
Corbet — with his third feature, after 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader and 2018’s Vox Lux — has pulled out all the stops…
I like Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader, and positively adored his Vox Lux…
…whereas The Childhood of a Leader (2015) failed to make back even 1/20th of its $5M budget…
The Childhood of a Leader (2015), la historia de un joven estadounidense en Francia que crece para convertirse en un dictador fascista, ambientada entre 1918 y 1940…
Across Corbet’s filmography as director, a pattern of interconnected themes begins to emerge, with his exceptional Sartre inspired debut The Childhood of a Leader (2015) to the pop culture grafted Faustian nightmare Vox Lux (2018), all literary endowed tragedies featuring compromised protagonists pursuing a vision which will define them but prove to ruinous to themselves and others.