Plot & Summary
The Merry Gentleman, which represents the feature directorial debut of actor Michael Keaton, is a meditation on loneliness and about the things we do to fill up those big, empty gaps in life. Anchoring the film, which is driven more by characters than plot, are fine performances by Keaton and Kelly Macdonald and a screenplay in which the pauses between words are as meaningful as the words themselves. The style is unhurried and spare and, with an emphasis on religious iconography, the movie drives home the point that good and evil are perhaps not as easily defined as one might think. Perhaps those concepts are established in the eye of the beholder.The Merry Gentleman focuses on two individuals who are presented primarily in the present. We know almost nothing about their pasts - who they are and what they did before the first frame of the film. Keaton is Frank Logan, a low-rent hit man who is suffering from depression, is physically ill, and frequently considers suicide. Macdonald, making her first appearance since No Country for Old Men, is Kate Frazier, a battered wife who flees from her abusive husband, Michael (Bobby Cannavale), to start a new life.
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