"He was of German and Irish bloods . His name was Lester Ballard — a child of God, much like yourself, perhaps." These words, spoken in somber voice-over by the actor Tim Blake Nelson — in the ...

Out of Competition Child of God tells the story of a violent man named Lester Ballard who attempts to live outside the social order in Sevier County, Tenn.

Child of God offers no such thing. Lester Ballard (Scott Haze) educes sympathy initially; he’s alone, angry and determined.

McCarthy saw Lester in words Franco echoes in voice-over and in every frame of the film as “a child of God much like yourself, perhaps.” ...

James Franco is a jack-of-all-trades on his latest project, "Child of God." Actor Scott Haze plays protagonist Lester Ballard in this dramatic thriller, set in the 1960's Eastern Tennessee ...

James Franco’s “Child of God,” closely based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel about a twisted homicidal misfit in Eastern Tennessee (circa 1960), plays like Time-Life’s &ldq… ...

“Child of God”: James Franco’s necrophiliac love affair The 21st-century Renaissance man forges on with a grueling Cormac McCarthy adaptation no one will want to watch ...

Five minutes into Child of God, Lester's marauding around the Tennessee wilderness, hunting for game and spewing incoherent gibberish.

Filmed in 2012 in West Virginia, Child of God is based on the 1973 novel by Cormac McCarthy about Appalachian man Lester Ballad (Scott Haze) living in isolation who spirals into crime and degradation.

“Child of God” is a whole of sorts, but its source faithfulness and folksy grimness may seem too simplified overall to bring true impact to the psychological and physical horror on display.

Venice Film Review: ‘Child of God’ An extremely faithful, suitably raw but still relatively hemmed-in adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's chilling 1973 novel.