{"id":10892,"date":"2021-12-13T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10892"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:56:14","slug":"the-card-counter-directed-by-paul-schrader-first-reformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10892","title":{"rendered":"The Card Counter \u2013 Directed by Paul Schrader (First Reformed)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cast:<\/strong>\u00a0Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>At one point in Paul Schrader\u2019s latest severe character study, the camera reveals a tattoo on the back of Oscar Isaac\u2019s character\u2019s back that reads, \u201cI trust my life to providence, I trust my soul to grace.\u201d In the shot, William Tell, Isaac\u2019s troubled gambling protagonist, is sipping whiskey and writing at a desk, a pose familiar to fans of Schrader\u2019s work, and the words come from a song written for\u00a0<em>Light Sleeper<\/em>, Schrader\u2019s mist-soaked 1992 drama about insomnia and addiction. These self-referential touches are hardly essential to enjoying the film, which tracks Tell as he plays in gambling tournaments for a kind-hearted manager (Tiffany Haddish) and considers a revenge plot against a private security contractor (Willem Dafoe) pitched to him by a disturbed young man (Tye Sheridan). The movie works as a shrewd thriller, a smoldering romance, and an often angry meditation on guilt. But it works best as yet another example of Schrader\u2019s unwavering faith in his own divine gifts as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2021. It was released on September 10, 2021, by Focus Features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast:\u00a0Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe At one point in Paul Schrader\u2019s latest severe character study, the camera reveals a tattoo on the back of Oscar Isaac\u2019s character\u2019s back that reads, \u201cI trust my life to providence, I trust my soul to grace.\u201d In the shot, William Tell, Isaac\u2019s troubled gambling protagonist, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18886,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892\/revisions\/18886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}