The Power of the Dog (2021)

- PICKED BY ESTHER -
January 2023

“In Jane Campion’s staggering take on the western, her first movie in more than a decade, a cruel cowboy meets his surprising match. […] The Power of the Dog is based on a 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, a closeted gay man whose critically acclaimed fiction drew on his formative years living and working on a Montana ranch. The book is a novel of the West, and in an afterword written for a reprint, Annie Proulx observes that ‘something aching and lonely and terrible of the west is caught forever’ in Savage’s pages.” - Read the rest of the New York Times review here