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

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I had to watch this twice to grasp what happened but I absolutely loved this film . It's very slow moving . And very subtle .

If you think it's tedious I think that probably means you've missed the point !

My favourite film for ages . Loved it . Absolutely loved it . It's genius .

@stillvicarinatutu

If you think it's tedious I think that probably means you've missed the point !

My favourite film for ages . Loved it . Absolutely loved it . It's genius .

How patronising.

Ok .

I said this because I had to watch it twice to grasp that Pete was basically a murderer if evil genius proportions. It's slow . And it doesn't do any work for you .

It also took me two watches to realise Phil was gay . It's so subtle . Maybe I'm a b it thick ! Wasnt meant to be patronising.

If you think it's tedious I think that probably means you've missed the point

Well I didn't need to watch it twice to work out the glaringly obvious...

@stillvicarinatutu

It also took me two watches to realise Phil was gay . It's so subtle . Maybe I'm a b it thick ! Wasnt meant to be patronising.

It was obvious Phil was gay from the scene at the bathing pond with the neckerchief and then the later scene when Peter finds the stash of magazines.

I found it a bit tedious. The cinematography was beautiful and the acting was good, but it was boring.

I quite enjoyed plot twist, it didn't go the way I expected. And there was a lot of foreboding menace in the tension between the characters.

But it was still boring

Bitchy !

Well it took me 2 watches to realise because the porn stash was bronco Henry's .
And I had to watch it again to realise what had actually given Phil anthrax.
Clearly I'm a bit stupid but on second watch I really really appreciated much more
Than the first watch when I had found it very slow .

You know what else I enjoyed about it - that Benedict cumberbatch played such a nasty bastard character- not his quintessential English gentleman role .

on the back of this i watched The Piano,
never seen it before
enjoyed it very much indeed

My oh got me the book of this for Xmas and it goes into much more detail about things. Like peters dads death etc. I plan to re-watch when I have finished the book

I was sure I'd posted in this thread.
Anyway, just watched for the second time, saw it first in the cinema and still loved it, totally genius, but I think if I'd watched at home the first time I'd have missed wtf was actually going on.

Really enjoyed this, although DH did not pick up on some of the subtle details of the plot.

Might have to read the book now.

I saw it last night and I loved it. There were clues to the twist all the way through but the tension is so strong you just miss them.
I though Jesse Plemmons and Benedict Cummerbatch were great. George was so understated but he was the strong one because he knew Phil and Rose's faults but he loved them anyway. Phil was such a bully but you could see the pain and loss in him.
When I was younger East of Eden was one of my favourite books and this film reminded me so much of the Adam/Charles dynamic. I'm really looking forward to reading The Power of the Dog now.

Sorry to disagree with most on here.
What a long drawn out movie! Tedious and slow.
I even watched most of it on x1.25 speed.
Did you really not think that the upcoming murder was obvious when he put on the gloves and took out his scalpel on finding the carcase.
Better plots and faster dialogue in Brokenwood!

That happened quite a way into the film.

I'd have possibly missed it as I will check a text/go to the loo/put the kettle on when nothing seems to be happening, as it did in the whole film.
Since I watched in the cinema I didn't get distracted, or look away I think that is needed to pick up on everything.
The skinning the cow doesn't show you him studying medical books, or really why he killed the rabbit, both times actually.

I saw it again in the cinema this week as I really do love it, I get others don't, but many, (not necessarily on here), have said nothing happened, or they switched off half way through and the former is wrong, everything happens, albeit quietly, the latter means they can't possibly know.
An opinion about a film when you watched half of it?

@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.

This.

And the shit homemade and too loud music was distracting too. Actually I'm perhaps thankful for it.

What was there, about 50 lines of dialogue tops?

I think KD may have decided she needed to be drunk to get through it.

Boring rubbish. The Piano is fab cant believe its by the same person.

Tedious beyond belief, gave up on it.

I have rewatched this film so many times now and I still love it .

It's slow - yes - but absolutely everything happens without you realising until a second watch .

It's slow - yes - but absolutely everything happens without you realising until a second watch .

No way am I watching that pile of pretentious crap a second time.

It was filmed in my home town, well, region. Which I always think of as more Tuscany than Montana, but there you go.

I am notoriously bad at films. And so as predicted, I fell asleep fairly swiftly into it.

Anyone remember that Seinfeld episode where Elaine relates watching The English Patient…?

I’m definitely Elaine when it comes to The Power of the Dog.

God it's boring. I say that as a huge fan of lush, ponderous westerns where the action is mostly emotional.

I can't stand either of the lead actors. They seemed blank, robotic and unconnected despite being married to each other in real life.

Hell no to a rewatch.