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Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beloved’ Stages a Father-Daughter Reckoning That Doesn’t Quite Cohere
Javier Bardem plays an absent father whose new film becomes a way to reconnect with his estranged daughter, while the production details expose their strained bond.
The Cannes competition title and TIFF Special Presentation raises, then quickly drops, intriguing questions about the connection between its director protagonist's colonial-era period piece and personal reckoning with fatherhood.