Georgetown

Georgetown

2019 · 99 min · EN · R · 5.9 (163 votes)
Dir. Christoph Waltz · Starring Christoph Waltz, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave, Corey Hawkins, Sergio Di Zio, Noam Jenkins · Music Lorne Balfe
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Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

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This film feels like a slow-burn unraveling of a charismatic manipulator's world. It's a sharp, unsettling character study that leaves you questioning motives and the nature of ambition. The dialogue crackles with dark wit.

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