Portland Public Library

The power of the dog, Netflix presents ; in association with The New Zealand Film Commission, Cross City Films & BBC Film ; a See Saw Films & Bad Girl Creek production ; a Max Films production in association with Brightstar ; a film by Jane Campion ; written and directed by Jane Campion ; produced by Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian ; produced by Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier

eng

videorecording

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

The power of the dog

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Netflix presents ; in association with The New Zealand Film Commission, Cross City Films & BBC Film ; a See Saw Films & Bad Girl Creek production ; a Max Films production in association with Brightstar ; a film by Jane Campion ; written and directed by Jane Campion ; produced by Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian ; produced by Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier

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The Criterion Collection, 1158

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

adult

live action