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Interview, June, 2006 by Michael Koresky
REVIEW: THE KING (ThinkFilm) Directed by James Marsh
A maelstrom of incest, murder, and religious hypocrisy is unleashed when the mysterious Elvis (a creepy, American-accented Gael Garcia Bernal), freshly discharged from the Navy, travels to Corpus Christi, Texas, to meet his birth father (William Hurt), an evangelical preacher with a new, young wife (Laura Harring), a zealot son (Paul Dano), and a taciturn daughter (Pell James). Though it's fun to watch the plot careen, Marsh's stately direction can't hide the fact that the script, co-written by Milo Addica, is just another over baked Southern Gothic melodrama.
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