Paul Schrader is set to return to Venice Film Festival tomorrow with The Card Counter, four years after his Ethan Hawke-starring First Reformed debuted at the Italian festival to acclaim.The director’s new movie stars Oscar Isaac as a wandering poker player who has a dark past working in military ‘black sites’.
When he meets Tye Sheridan, a young man who is similarly lost, he decides to play on behalf of a gambling syndicate run by Tiffany Haddish in a bid to win enough money to help his new companion.
Willem Dafoe also makes an appearance as a retired military general.A little more than 12 months ago, Deadline sat down with Schrader and his leading man to talk about the film, which at the time was battling Covid delays.
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