Post by sgev1977 on Sept 2, 2021 15:36:55 GMT
The Telegraph, 5 stars out of 5,
Also this quote…
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/power-dog-review-sly-blistering-career-best-performance-benedict/?fr=operanews
Also this quote…
It centres on a career-best performance from Cumberbatch, by turns sly and blistering, which perhaps feels all the more extraordinary since it’s hard to imagine him even being cast in the first place. Phil is the kind of inwardly roiling, mercurial fiend you can imagine being immortalised by Jack Nicholson in the 1970s – but in 2021, Cumberbatch has done the immortalising.
Cumberbatch shows total mastery of the mechanics of cruelty: there is an extraordinary scene in which he menaces Rose as she tries to practice the piano simply by playing along with his banjo. (The terrific, psyche-shredding score – which, like a few items here, may remind some viewers of There Will Be Blood – was supplied by Jonny Greenwood.) But his tenderness leaks out in his interactions with certain inanimate items he treats like precious, even ceremonial objects: that very banjo, for instance, or the ropes he braids attentively from strips of hide.
The film is often hard to watch, but Campion and her uniformly excellent cast leaven the discomfort with a constant sense of prickling intrigue around what precisely we are watching play out here, and how far the ritual will go. How much will we end up seeing of this man? And how much will he ever allow himself to see?
The film is often hard to watch, but Campion and her uniformly excellent cast leaven the discomfort with a constant sense of prickling intrigue around what precisely we are watching play out here, and how far the ritual will go. How much will we end up seeing of this man? And how much will he ever allow himself to see?
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/power-dog-review-sly-blistering-career-best-performance-benedict/?fr=operanews