(ANSA) - VENICE, 02 SEPT - Never as in the case of THE POWER OFTHE DOG by Jane Campion, in the running for the Golden Lion in Venice, the length, 125 minutes, has its own legitimate reason for being. The film with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, JessePlemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee has its own slow, toxic trend, because what is turning out to be the story has its due and is just one of the possible developments suggested by the plot. Netflix film, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Savage (published in Italy by Neri Pozza), takes us to Montana, in 1920 in a post-western. Here the introverted breeder Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) inspires fear and awe to all around him. When mild-mannered and more cultured brother George (the great Jesse Plemons) brings home his new wife, widow Rose (Kirsten Dunst),with her son, Phil is not willing to accept those he considers only strangers and begins tormenting them in a no holds barred war. But it can be said that if this is the minimum plot, what happens next is linked to emotional landslides of the characters as surprising as impossible to tell without making spoilers. But one thing is certain, that Rose's son, Peter (the long-limbed Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee), who appears very quietly only halfway through the film, will eventually be a real protagonist.what happens next is linked to emotional landslides of the characters as surprising as impossible to tell without making spoilers. But one thing is certain, that Rose's son, Peter (the long-limbed Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee), who appears very quietly only halfway through the film, will eventually be a real protagonist.what happens next is linked to emotional landslides of the characters as surprising as impossible to tell without making spoilers. But one thing is certain, that Rose's son, Peter (the long-limbed Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee), who appears very quietly only halfway through the film, will eventually be a real protagonist.
"I am a creative person and I have not made a percentage of the genres of Savage's book - said Campion in Chile at the Lido, asking how she found herself making a highly masculine film. - I have always believed in this book and I could not forget it even when I had finished it. It enters your psyche. " (HANDLE).