Edmond

8/27/2022

It never hurts a movie to have both William H. Macy and Joe Mantegna, not least because there’s a good chance it’s a David Mamet film. Mantegna appears briefly in Edmond, adapted by Mamet from his one-act play and directed by Stuart Gordon, but his intervention is key. Edmond Burke (Macy) encounters Mantegna’s character in a bar, and after the two bond over their shared racism, the latter gives the former a card with the address of a nightclub, but which Edmond momentarily sees as a Tarot card: the Hierophant. This is ironic because the Hierophant is believed to bring religious worshipers into the presence of what is sacred, and in The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck it represents conformity to social norms or a deference to the established moral and social order, being a guide to knowledge,

9/28/2026

Interesting character drama showcases William H. Macy's great talent and ability to carry almost entirely on his own. The movie sprinkles in some name talent for a few minutes each. To say the least this isn't exactly a happy flick or anything though not entirely depressing. It does have the annoying psuedo-intellectual rubbish that I hated about "The Matrix Revolutions", and this is coming from someone who has liked David Mamet-written scripts. **3.0/5**