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Royal flush: dark, shocking, and reviled by critics, The King is the most provocative Texas movie in years.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JUN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Royal flush: dark, shocking, and reviled by critics, The King is the most provocative Texas movie in years.(Movie review)

Article Excerpt
It was an indie dream in the making: A promising director named James Marsh, known mostly for the obscure quasi-documentary Wisconsin Death Trip (1999), cobbled together financing for a thriller called The King, about a drifter who terrorizes a Texas preacher and his family. The director landed two notable names--Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt--to play the lead parts. He shot the movie in Austin and Corpus Christi in the summer of 2004, around the same time Bernal's star was skyrocketing on the strength of The Motorcycle Diaries and Bad Education. The following spring, he earned a berth at the Cannes Film Festival. Because it was one of only a handful of new American works to premiere there--and because it was Bernal's first English-language feature--the film attracted the attention of just about every important distributor and critic in attendance.

And then, well, sometimes those indie dreams quickly curdle into nightmares. "The King is a noxious film morally and an aggravating one dramatically," wrote Variety's Todd...

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