Master Gardener (2022) review

Professional gardener Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) is asked by his employer (and "lover") Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver) - who owns the lavish Gracewood Gardens - to take on her mixed-race grandniece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) as an apprentice ... except she has a problem with an ex-boyfriend and he has a checkered past as a White Supremist and is currently in witness protection.  It follows the same "setup" as Schrader's previous films, First Reformed and The Card Counter - about solitary men trying to escape into their obsessions - but here I think Edgerton's musings on nature ("Gardening is a belief in the future.  A belief that things will happen according to plan.") are a bit banal, and when it turns into an episode of "How I Fell in Love With a Neo-Nazi," it becomes quite worrisome.  Schrader didn't mean any harm with it - he genuinely believes affection between two radically different individuals is a possibility - but adjustments were needed.