Venice Film Review: 'Guest of Honour'. Atom Egoyan continues to lose the plot — in various ways — in this hare-brained breakdown of a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship. Venice Film Review: 'Guest of Honour'.
Starring David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Luke Wilson, Alexandre Bourgeois, Rossif Sutherland Some directors are a reliable name on the poster for a movie. They allow audiences to know roughly what they're in for and whether they're going to be. Guest of Honour movie reviews & Metacritic score: Jim (David Thewlis) and his daughter Veronica (Laysla De Oliveira), a high school music teacher, attempt to.
If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. It stars David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Rossif Sutherland, Alexandre Bourgeois, Arsinée Khanjian and Luke Wilson. Parents need to know that Guest of Honour is a sometimes confusing Canadian drama from Atom Egoyan about a food inspector (David Thewlis) who's trying to understand the circumstances behind his daughter's incarceration. Guest of Honour is good enough to at least arrest that trajectory but it feels overthought and overwrought, as if its creator got carried away and dropped too many ingredients in the pot. But nestled at its centre is a terrific turn from Thewlis, whose anguished food inspector is pathetic and misguided. My review of Guest of Honour.
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Atom Egoyan's absurd new film has the answers. "Keeping Secrets Can Have Terrible Consequences". What You Need To Know: GUEST OF HONOUR is a complex Canadian drama about a health inspector's relationship with his guilt-ridden. With Guest of Honour, Egoyan seems to have found a comfort zone between these two starkly different forms of filmmaking.
This is a downbeat study of one man's personal and professional downfall after his daughter is sent to prison, examining the ways in which he reckons with a tragedy that could. Guest of Honour feels like a failed attempt to tame the unwieldy story of a complicated novel. But in fact it's an original screenplay, which means Egoyan has gone out of his way to create the overly fussy structure, perhaps in a bid to lend the psychologically wobbly drama some weight. Guest of Honour, Atom Egoyan's latest film is certainly eye-catching because it looks good and is also well acted, but is so absurd that I personally found it difficult to connect with the story.