After having probed the female soul in all her work (from
Sweetie
to
Un ange à ma table
), Jane Campion sets her sights on the male psyche. Twelve years after
Bright Star
(2009), without forgetting a detour to television with the series
Top of The Lake
, the New Zealand director tackles the western. The Venice Film Festival will have served as a launching pad for this bewitching psychological drama, winning hands down the price of the staging. However, it is not on the big screen that spectators will be able to discover this work in CinémaScope, but of course Netflix where Campion thus joins Scorsese, Bong Joon-ho, Soderbergh or even Alfonso Cuaron.
With
The Power of the Dog
, (adapted from the eponymous novel by Thomas Savage released in 1967), we are immersed in the vast plains of Montana in the mid-1920s. On these lands majestically filmed by Jane Campion's camera, reigns the powerful and formidable Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch, charismatic, sharp, in his best
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