The King (2005)

The blurb in the Festival programme made this film sound a whole lot better than it was.  It is a collaboration between the British documentarian who made the very weird "Wisconsin Death Trip" and an established Hollywood screenwriter, and stars Gael Garcia Bernal in his first English-language role -- but all, I thought, to little avail.  William Hurt is a born-again pastor in Texas who is faced with Garcia Bernal claiming to be the son of a long-past relationship.  It is not 100% definite that the latter is telling the whole truth since he swiftly impregnates the young lass who may be his stepsister and also murders her brother who may or may not be his stepbrother.  When the hypocritical Hurt acknowledges the young man as his son, things take a turn for the worse (and yes, they can get worse).  Unfortunately the ending was left wide open which was less a case of "viewer, make up your own mind" than unsatisfactory storytelling.