With The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion revisits old themes, but it’s also unlike anything she’s done.
are as different in sensibility and storyline as two consecutive films from the same director could be. The plot of the new moviewhich premieres this week in limited release and begins streaming on Netflix on Dec. 1, kicks off not with the establishment of a grand passion in the making, but with a pleasant-at-best marriage of convenience between a Montana widow, Rose and George, the wealthy son of a ranching family .
And both feature a central character—Daniel Day-Lewis’ Daniel Plainview, Cumberbatch’s Phil Burbank—whose arrogantly self-assured demeanor hides a core of bottomless insecurity and, when pushed to the limit, bottomless malevolence.Phil, we learn in a few tossed-off lines of dialogue, is a brilliant man who once earned a university degree in classical studies, but he chooses to live the life of a frontier cowboy, spending his days castrating bulls and pulling pranks with the ranch hands.
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