Synopsis
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.
Benedict Cumberbatch Kodi Smit-McPhee Kirsten Dunst Jesse Plemons Thomasin McKenzie Geneviève Lemon Keith Carradine Frances Conroy Kenneth Radley Sean Keenan George Mason Ramontay McConnell David Denis Cohen Holloway Max Mata Josh Owen Alistair Sewell Eddie Campbell Alice Englert Bryony Skillington Jacque Drew Yvette Parsons Aislinn Furlong Daniel Cleary Richard Falkner Tatum Warren-Ngata Yvette Reid Alice May Connolly Stephen Lovatt Show All…
Tanya Seghatchian Emile Sherman Iain Canning Roger Frappier Jane Campion Libby Sharpe Chloe Smith Phil Jones
Bad Girl Creek See-Saw Films BBC Film New Zealand Film Commission Cross City Films Max Films Brightstar
Köpeğin Pençesi, Psie Pazuty, El poder del perro, 犬山记, Ataque dos Cães, 파워 오브 도그, 犬之力, Силата на кучето, Il potere del cane, Власть пса, Psie pazury, Síla psa, Sức Mạnh Của Loài Chó, Η Εξουσία του Σκύλου, כוחו של הכלב, У руках пса, Šape pasje, 犬山記, Le pouvoir du chien, A kutya karmai közt, El Poder Del Perro, O Poder do Cão, Шапе пасје, パワー・オブ・ザ・ドッグ, قدرت سگ, Šuns galia, ძაღლის ძალა, Moč psa, Koera vägi, Puterea câinelui
the masculine urge to cope with your step-uncle’s pointed homophobia by storming outside and aggressively hula-hooping
will be piecing this one together for weeks. precise and uncomfortable movie about predation and protection. loved it, need to ride a horse immediately
Uses a gorgeous western backdrop (including a marvelous Jonny Greenwood score) to stage a very subtle duel of shifting power dynamics/gender roles and psychosexual tension. Not the movie I expected going in and it takes quite a while to reveal itself—Campion is very patient with the filmmaking and deals a lot in the gradual building of detail and implication—but I ultimately found it very rewarding once it did. There's something really felt here in how it slowly sheds its ominous atmosphere of destructive repression and morphs into this strangely vulnerable fable about the presentation of strength and control (especially of the performatively masculine variety) vs. the real thing. Very interested in 1) reading the original novel and 2) giving the film another go with the knowledge of its structure and eventual destination in mind.
I gave the matter a lot of thought while watching this movie and I gotta say, I don’t think I would do very well working on a cattle ranch
"He's just a man, Peter. Only another man."
The Power of the Dog opens from the perspective of Peter Gordon, a boy who recently lost his father, and then it places us directly into the conflicted hands of Phil and George Burbank, two experienced cowboys with vastly different approaches to the changing landscape of the late 1925 American West. In this way, the film presents us with the death of the west and its patriarch and the ensuing crisis in masculinity that these parallel deaths caused.
Peter, Phil, and George are all very different types of men. Peter spends his free time making paper flowers; he is gentle and effeminate to the point that Phil mocks him openly for his…