The Card Counter

Panorama

"With The Card Counter, Schrader has reverted to form, but he’s remade it anew at the same time. He’s done it again, with crafty, haunting power"

THE WASHINGTON POST
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Paul Schrader
  • USA 2021
  • 112 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Tell (Oscar Isaac) just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk (Tye Sheridan), a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel (Willem Dafoe). Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk. But keeping Cirk on the straight-and-narrow proves impossible, dragging Tell back into the darkness of his past.

Paul Schrader’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated First Reformed (Haifa Festival 2018) is a revenge thriller with a star-studded cast. The film comes to Haifa from its premiere at the Venice Festival.

Filmography: First Reformed (2017), Adam Resurrected (2008), Affliction (1997), Light of Day (1987), Cat People (1982), American Gigolo (1980), Hardcore (1979).


  • Director Paul Schrader
  • Production Lauren Mann, Braxton Pope, David M. Wulf
  • Script Paul Schrader
  • Cinematography Alexander Dynan
  • Music Robert Levon Been, Giancarlo Vulcano
  • Festivals Venice
  • Actors Oscar Isaac, Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish
  • Source Forum Film, Herzliya Pituach