Trailer for Netflix's Gritty Western THE POWER OF DOG with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons
Netflix has dropped the full trailer for director Jane Campion's upcoming gritty western romance film The Power of the Dog. The film comes along with a great cast that includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Frances Conroy, Keith Carradine, Peter Carroll, and Adam Beach.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Savage, and the story follows a charismatic rancher named Phil Burbank, who inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love. This looks like a hell of great film that tells a mesmerizing story filled with interesting characters, and it is beautifully shot.
The synopsis reads:
All of Phil's romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter – all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form – he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil's cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?
The Power of the Dog will be released in select US theaters on November 17th, 2021, streaming on Netflix on December 1st.
