The Forgiven (2021) (original) (raw)

The Forgiven takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the locals and western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.

The Forgiven takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the locals and western visitors to a house party in a grand villa. (less)

Director: John Michael McDonagh
Writer: John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Caleb Landry Jones, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Abbey Lee, Christopher Abbott

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Review by Brian Orndorf, June 29, 2022

7 / 10

John Michael McDonagh�s last feature was 2016�s �War on Everyone,� where he attempted to mount a darkly comedic understanding of American life and action movies. The experiment wasn�t creatively satisfying, getting lost in its own quirk, distancing the writer/director from his earlier successes with �The Guard� and �Calvary.� �The Forgiven� inches McDonagh back to his potential, put in charge of an adaptation of a 2012 Lawrence Osborne novel, and one with some sting to it, detailing the experiences of an elite western couple causing major problems in Morocco, dealing with the aftermath in thei ...read more...

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