‘The Irishman’: Martin Scorsese Crafts A New Gangster Epic, With A Deeper Sense Of Soul & Morality [Nyff Review]

Perhaps no director better portrays the passage of time than Martin Scorsese, who has set films in five different centuries and usually tells stories that span decades, not days.

So when his latest film, “The Irishman”— another mobster drama, but this time with more spiritual depth— starts with a burst of nostalgic ’50s music, the audience is prepared to be transported to the past.

Instead, the camera moves back to reveal the setting is the present day in a nursing home—and not a particularly nice one— where Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) sits alone, trapped in the past, with only memories and guilt to keep him company.Continue reading ‘The Irishman’: Martin Scorsese Crafts A New Gangster Epic, With A Deeper Sense Of Soul & Morality [Nyff Review] at The Playlist.

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