![]() ![]() There’s a real haughtiness to this character and a visceral misogyny can be sensed every time he covertly and overtly targets Rose for ridicule. He’s a disdainful man who gave up urban sensibilities for rural roughness but takes pleasure in beating down those he perceives as weak because he himself is hiding his own secret weakness. Often alone and contending with a housemate who really does not want her invading his space, the psychological warfare between Phil and Rose begins and Campion directs it with meticulous coolness.Ĭumberbatch embodies a particularly vile sort of fragile masculinity. Of course, the honeymoon is short lived once Rose moves into the brothers’ ranch residence and Peter is enrolled at a boarding school to study medicine, like his late father. ![]() We can sense the natural affection and ease with which they navigate each other’s bodies while also displaying all the tender wonder of newlyweds. That’ until one day George courts Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst), the young widowed mother of Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and takes her as his bride much to the outrage of his brother.ĭunst and Plemmons channel all their real-life marital bliss into their onscreen coupling. Despite his gruff brother’s often relentless bullying, delivered with uncomfortable precision by Cumberbatch, the smart-suited George, well, he doesn’t grin but he certainly bears it. Phil is the more dominant sibling and his frequent references to the Roman mythology of Romulus and Remus only reinforces the power imbalance. Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his brother George (Jesse Plemmons) are co-owners of a cattle ranch in Montana 1925, where they’ve lived together, slept in their childhood bedroom together, and run the business together for several years. In fact, this engaging two-hour psychodrama depicts a more brutal state of affairs where temperaments and egos collide to damaging effect. ![]() Twelve years after the release of Bright Star, New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion returns to the big screen with this adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel The Power of the Dog, though it’s a far cry from its romantic predecessor. ![]()
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