How Trump’s Election & U.S. Culture Wars Inspired Jesse Eisenberg Drama ‘Manodrome’: Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: South African director John Trengove’s crisis of masculinity drama Mandrome, which world premieres in Competition at the Berlinale this weekend, is one of the most topical Golden Bear contenders this year.
Jesse Eisenberg stars as Ralphie, a disenfranchised, young man whose life spirals out of control when he falls under the spell of a cultish ‘family of men’.
Money pressures and his own difficult childhood, have left Ralphie conflicted about impending fatherhood with his girlfriend (Odessa Young) as he struggles to find his place in society.
When he is embraced by a group of supportive older men, led by a charismatic father figure (Adrien Brody), he is hooked but an initiation ceremony unleashes dangerous emotions within him Deadline unveiled a first teaser ahead of the world premiere which you can watch here.
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