Jane Campion & Power of the Dog

[MsAmerica]

Director from New Zealand, with a lead from England, tackling an American story.

Jane Campion Is Taking Cinema to the Darkest Human Places
By Jordan Kisner

She has the drape of fine, silver hair you might associate with a mystic, but everything else about her — the square, chunky black glasses and understated, monochromatic outfits — indicates, aesthetically speaking, what she is: the most decorated female filmmaker alive, an auteur in the lineage of Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and Pedro Almodóvar.

www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/magazine/jane-campion-power-of-the-dog.html

dubainachrichten.com/world/jane-campion-is-taking-cinema-to-the-darkest-human-places/7584/

Looks very interesting. NYT paywalled though.

I saw it today in a cinema, (Melbourne), though it's out on Netflix on 1st December.

Outstanding, and well worth seeing on the big screen. The temptation to pause it, go out and get a drink are too much and I feel it needs, at 2 hours and 5 minutes, all the attention you can give. Superb performances all round, but especially Cumberbatch, Dunst and Smit-McPhee. Lots of silence, but with stuff happening, so stay on your toes.

One goof (not spoiler) is a scene with birds in a nest which are, as all Aussies and Kiwis know, the Australian magpie.

wanted to see it on the bigscreen but it is hardly being shown around here and is now on netflix,
planning to watch tonight

perhaps i should make an effort for the big screen however

Watching this tonight, DH thought it looked really good. (slightly disappointed as I thought it was about dogs!)

I watched it last night and thought it was awful, nothing happens!! Literally whole scenes of just standing around or intense gazing

Perhaps it’s one of those ones where you really need to concentrate on it but I found myself totally not engaged with it

i enjoyed that, excellent, excellent acting,

Loved it, utterly brilliant acting from all the main cast. Even film hating boyfriend loved it. And the scenery was incredible.

Filmed just down the road from here. Kirsten Dunst stayed in my best friend's home while she filmed here. It was filmed during lockdown 2020.

Loved it!

struggled with it, particularly when DH said it was NZ. All I could see what Orcs chasing hobbits rather than cowboys.

Kirsten Dunst was excellent, totally believable drunk
and Benedict Cumberbatch also Fantastic,
all were great
and i loved how it ended

Watched it last night and really enjoyed it. It turned out differently than I thought it would.
The scenery was stunning.

Saw it on Netflix. Did struggle to keep my attention tbh despite excellent cast. Grew on me more during the last hour

Just saw this. Loved it. Definitely a slow burn movie, but the performances by Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-Mcphee were extraordinary. Incredible NZ scenery pretending to be Montana. I wish Kirsten Dunst had been given more to do than weep, but I guess that was central to the movie.

Slow but good and it is easy to miss the twist....

Kirsten Dunst played an amazing drunk role

I’ve watched it twice now (as I wanted to pick up on the clues I’d missed the first time round). As others have said the scenery was magnificent, the acting brilliant.

Some have said it’s slow but I was absolutely gripped from the first moment. I’m not surprised it’s being tipped for awards…I loved it.

One of the most boring, dismal, turgid and ridiculously drawn out films I've ever seen. Stupidly melodramatic in places with laboured 'meaningful' close ups.

5 stars in The Guardian - can't begin to understand why.

Watched it on Netflix and loved it. Outstanding acting from all the lead roles. I was left wondering where it was going right until the end.

@Medievalist

One of the most boring, dismal, turgid and ridiculously drawn out films I've ever seen. Stupidly melodramatic in places with laboured 'meaningful' close ups.

5 stars in The Guardian - can't begin to understand why.

Seconded. My goodness it was tedious (and full of plot holes too)

@AnyFucker

Watched it on Netflix and loved it. Outstanding acting from all the lead roles. I was left wondering where it was going right until the end.

We loved it too.

@ShirleyPhallus

I watched it last night and thought it was awful, nothing happens!! Literally whole scenes of just standing around or intense gazing

Perhaps it’s one of those ones where you really need to concentrate on it but I found myself totally not engaged with it

Everything happens

It’s brilliant but definitely not one to watch on a phone (like I did) as the cinematography alone is amazing. All the cast are great.

I saw it in a cinema- it was still tedious.

Cumberbatch's performed reminded me a bit of Daniel Day- Lewis' in There Will be Blood - another film I spent most of thinking "please end now"