When Rose and son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a skeletal and effeminate medical student, move into the Burbank family ranch, Phil is instantly standoffish, accusatory and overprotective. But quiet, well-mannered George is hardly in the mood to celebrate, having reached his limit with Phil’s boisterous and mean antics, especially after Phil hounds the waiter and customers at a local restaurant.Īnyway, George would rather spend his time with local widow Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst), and the two are soon betrothed. The year is 1925, and well-to-do Montana cattlemen and brothers Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Burbank (Jesse Plemons) are marking a quarter century since their first drive together. Starting out as a film about how to deal with a troublesome housemate, it turns inward from there, unraveling into a tense drama about masculinity and the burdens shouldered by cowboys who try to stuff their emotions beneath their hats. Based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, it is a slow-burning interior character piece. Though filmed in the sweeping, jagged hills of New Zealand, The Power of the Dog-a Western from noted Kiwi director Jane Campion-does not get caught up in the sprawling beauty of the landscape.
The Power of the Dog, Netflix, 128 minutes, 2021, R
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