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)Plots(1)
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape - pulsating with both freedom and menace - that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog. Set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage’s novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse Plemons), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers. (Criterion)
(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)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
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
Best movies:
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Drift (2013)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
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:
The Power of the Dog (2021)
X (2022)
Yvette Parsons
Best movies:
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The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) (series)
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