The King

If you thought William Hurt was good in A History Of Violence, wait and see what he does here. Initially a threatening presence, he comes to represent a man who’s trying to be good, even when the cards are stacked against him.

What the movie leaves us with are theological questions. Are the sins of the father visited on the son?

Though Elvis seems impelled by the memory of his dead Mexican mother and trained to deliver a certain calculated violence, his power is illusory.

Supported by a strong cast, Garcia Bernal plays the antihero as a creature of instinct, torn between survival and the urge to confess.

A drifter (Gael García Bernal) looks up the stranger who fathered him — a minister (William Hurt) begging to be brought down.