The greatest embodiment of this is Narvel himself. The setting immediately sets the stage for the surprising gothic undertones of Master Gardener, which eschews the neo-noir structure of Schrader's previous two films in favor of something moodier, shaggier, and a bit soapier. Haverhill becomes more envious, Maya's dangerous affiliations and Narvel's dark past as a white supremacist hitman head toward a bloody collision. Soon his long, monotonous narration about plant cultivation is interrupted by violent memories - a trigger pulled, a bomb going off, a bullet in the skull. When Maya arrives, sporting a tie-dye T-shirt that says, "No bad vibes," she's a shock of modernity to the stuck-in-time Gracewood Gardens, and a jolt that seems to slowly reawaken the sleepwalking Narvel. Haverhill says, with a barely-concealed venom, hoping his tutelage can shape Maya into a proper heir to Gracewood Gardens. Haverhill requests that he take her grand-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) under his wing as an apprentice after Maya's mother dies of an overdose. But his meticulous life is thrown for a loop when Mrs. Haverhill or waxing poetic about the wonders of plant life in his journal. When he's not commanding a team of expert gardeners who lovingly tend to Gracewood, he's warming the ego and bed of Mrs. Narvel works at Gracewood Gardens, the beautiful estate owned by wealthy dowager Mrs. Master Gardener stars Joel Edgerton as Narvel Roth, a quiet and disciplined horticulturist.
Master Gardener is a surprising gothic romance.
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