The Homesman (2014)
Country: FR/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, John Lithgow, William Fichtner, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, Meryl Streep
Synopsis:
Nebraska, a short time after the land rush: in a remote and struggling community where disease makes devastating inroads into livestock and children alike, a single woman volunteers to take three women driven insane by their homesteading experiences back across the Missouri river to Iowa.
Review:
Even more than Jones's modern Western (Three Burials�), this is a gruelling journey through a harsh world. He sets the courage and drive of Swank's plain spinster against the flat, treeless landscape, and himself plays a far less sympathetic, or at any rate selfless, old timer, who ultimately has a change of heart, although the final frames leave that open to question. Sadly, the three women, to whom so much time is given early on, remain mute ciphers. This otherwise strikingly good film recalls the realist Westerns of the seventies, such as The Hired Hand and Zandy's Bride.
Country: FR/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, John Lithgow, William Fichtner, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, Meryl Streep
Synopsis:
Nebraska, a short time after the land rush: in a remote and struggling community where disease makes devastating inroads into livestock and children alike, a single woman volunteers to take three women driven insane by their homesteading experiences back across the Missouri river to Iowa.
Review:
Even more than Jones's modern Western (Three Burials�), this is a gruelling journey through a harsh world. He sets the courage and drive of Swank's plain spinster against the flat, treeless landscape, and himself plays a far less sympathetic, or at any rate selfless, old timer, who ultimately has a change of heart, although the final frames leave that open to question. Sadly, the three women, to whom so much time is given early on, remain mute ciphers. This otherwise strikingly good film recalls the realist Westerns of the seventies, such as The Hired Hand and Zandy's Bride.
Country: FR/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 122m
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, John Lithgow, William Fichtner, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, Meryl Streep
Synopsis:
Nebraska, a short time after the land rush: in a remote and struggling community where disease makes devastating inroads into livestock and children alike, a single woman volunteers to take three women driven insane by their homesteading experiences back across the Missouri river to Iowa.
Review:
Even more than Jones's modern Western (Three Burials�), this is a gruelling journey through a harsh world. He sets the courage and drive of Swank's plain spinster against the flat, treeless landscape, and himself plays a far less sympathetic, or at any rate selfless, old timer, who ultimately has a change of heart, although the final frames leave that open to question. Sadly, the three women, to whom so much time is given early on, remain mute ciphers. This otherwise strikingly good film recalls the realist Westerns of the seventies, such as The Hired Hand and Zandy's Bride.