Directed by:
Jane CampionScreenplay:
Jane CampionCinematography:
Ari WegnerComposer:
Jonny GreenwoodCast:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Frances Conroy, Keith Carradine, Adam Beach, Geneviève Lemon (more)VOD (1)
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Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: he can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter - all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form - he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil’s cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace? (Transmission Films)
(more)Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch
UK
Best movies:
Frankenstein (2011) (theatrical recording)
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Hamlet (2015) (theatrical recording)
Jesse Plemons
USA
Best movies:
Hostiles (2017)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
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Kirsten Dunst
USA
Best movies:
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Australia
Best movies:
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Elvis (2022)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Thomasin McKenzie
New Zealand
Best movies:
The King (2019)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Frances Conroy
USA
Best movies:
Joker (2019)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Keith Carradine
USA
Best movies:
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Adam Beach
Canada
Best movies:
Lost in the Barrens (1990) (TV movie)
Hostiles (2017)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Geneviève Lemon
Australia
Best movies:
The Piano (1993)
The Well (1997)
The Dressmaker (2015)
Sean Keenan
Australia
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George Mason
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Cohen Holloway
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Alice Englert
New Zealand
Best movies:
8 (2008)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
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Alison Bruce
New Zealand
Best movies:
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) (series)
Alice May Connolly
Best movies:
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Stephen Lovatt
New Zealand
Best movies:
Mahana (2016)
The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) (series)
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Bryony Skillington
Best movies:
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Yvette Parsons
Best movies:
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The Power of the Dog (2021)