THE APPRENTICE - KINOMANIA 2024
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Year: 2024
Production: Other
KINOMANIA 2024
THE APPRENTICE - Canada, Denmark, Ireland, USA, 2024, 120‘
Director: Ali Abbasi
Cast: Sebastian Stan (Donald J. Trump), Jeremy Strong (Roy Cohn), Maria Bakalova (Ivana
Trump), Fred Trump (Martin Donovan), Catherine McNally (Mary Anne Trump)
Cannes – In Competition
A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son
of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong),
the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees
in Trump the perfect protégé -- someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a
willingness to do whatever it takes to win. It is Cohn that imparts the three rules that Trump
has since lived — and ruled— by. One: Attack, attack, attack. Two: Admit nothing, deny
everything. Three: Always claim victory, never admit defeat.
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, written by political reporter Gabriel Sherman, is a portrait of the
former president as a young man. We can plainly see Trump’s narcissism and psychopathy
grow more malignant as the film progresses. The naïf we meet in the beginning becomes
something far more terrifying as he is empowered by his success. Sebastian Stan delivers
the most nuanced performance of his career to date, supported by Jeremy Strong and Maria
Bakalova who deliver intricate characterizations in Abbasi fascinating version of Donald
Trump’s opulent life in New York City.
