“1. Tackle. Tackle. Tackle. 2. Admit nothing. Deny it outright. 3. Claim victory and never concede defeat.” This is the mantra hammered out by a young Donald Trump conscientiously applying the cynical principles of his mentor, lawyer Roy Cohn, in The Apprentice. In theaters this October 9, the biopic depicts his rise in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi (Border, Nights of Mashhad) dress “a fair portrait of what the United States and the world are facing now, when it comes to a former, and perhaps future, president,” rent the magazine Time.
Since its screening at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, the film has generated a lot of attention. From the shenanigans on his real estate projects to his tax evasion, including his liposuction or hair transplant and a rape scene involving Ivana, his wife from whom he was then in the process of divorcing, The Apprentice paints an unflattering portrait of Trump. Died in 2022, the latter had made this accusation against her ex-husband, before retracting.
Threats from the candidate
And if it is indeed due to be released this October 11 in the United States, shortly before the presidential election on November 5, The Apprentices
