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Summary:

Set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction. Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape - pulsating with both freedom and menace - that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers.

Contributors:

Campion, Jane, 1954- , film director, screenwriter, film producer

Seghatchian, Tanya , film producer

Sherman, Emile , film producer

Canning, Iain , film producer

Frappier, Roger , film producer

Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976- , actor

Dunst, Kirsten, 1982- , actor

Plemons, Jesse, 1988- , actor

Smit-McPhee, Kodi , actor

McKenzie, Thomasin, 2000- , actor

Lemon, Genevieve , actor

Carradine, Keith, 1949- , actor

Conroy, Frances , actor

Wegner, Ari, 1984 or 1985- , cinematographer

Sciberras, Peter , editor of moving image work

Greenwood, Jonny , composer

Taubin, Amy (Film critic) , writer of supplementary textual content

Savage, Thomas

Netflix (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

New Zealand Film Commission , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Cross City Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

BBC Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

See-Saw Films , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Bad Girl Creek Productions , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Max Films Productions , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Brightstar Films (Firm) , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Criterion Collection (Firm) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Power of the dog (Motion picture)

Included Works:

Motion picture adaptation of: Power of the dog [by Savage, T.]

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 1158

Subjects:

Brothers — Drama

Mothers and sons — Drama

Ranch life — Drama

Ranchers — Drama

Families — Drama

Montana — Drama

Brothers

Mothers and sons

Ranch life

Ranchers

Families

Montana

Genres:

Motion pictures

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Fiction

Fiction films

Romance films

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Western films

Psychological films

Historical films

Film adaptations

Feature films

Drama

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby Audio 5.1 surround.

Performers:

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, Keith Carradine, Frances Conroy.

Production Credits:

Director of photography, Ari Wegner ; editor, Peter Sciberras ; music, Jonny Greenwood.

General Notes:

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
English descriptive audio track for people with visual disabilities
Wide screen (2.28:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.
Based on the book by Thomas Savage.
Accompanied by booklet containing essay by film critic Amy Taubin.
Special features: 4K digital master, approved by director; Behind the scenes with Jane Campion (2021 interview with Campion about the making of the film); Reframing the West (2021 program featuring interviews with members of the cast and crew and behind-the-scenes footage captured on location in New Zealand); Anatomy of a score (2021 interview with Campion and composer Jonny Greenwood about the film's score); The women behind The power of the dog (2021 conversation among Campion, director of photography Ari Wegner, actor Kirsten Dunst, and producer Tanya Seghatchian, moderated by filmmaker Tamara Jenkins); Annie Proulx (2022 interview with novelist Annie Proulx); Trailer. Container booklet includes an essay by film critic Amy Taubin.

Audience:

adult
MPAA rating: R; for brief sexual content/full nudity.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered panels : color illustrations ; 19 cm).

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; surround; Dolby Audio 5.1

Film Characteristics:

2.28:1; wide screen

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

POW 2021 DVD

ISBNs:

9781681439938
168143993X

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515279017
Publisher Number: 15320524
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC3417D

OCLC Numbers:

1343901407