Narvel is the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of the estate, as he is to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs Haverhill. When she demands that he take on her wayward great niece, it unlocks secrets from a buried violent past.

Paul Schrader’s latest marvelous opus on American guilt and redemption cultivates its multicolored path to grace in a garden of award-winning splendor. Joel Edgerton excels as an anti-hero with green fingers but a troubled past, while Sigourney Weaver stuns as a spiteful grande dame.