UPDATE: Director Jane Campion has been awarded the Silver Lion for Best Director for The Power of the Dog at the Venice Film Festival. It is the first Netflix Original to win a prize at the festival, in a year where their inclusion has been hotly contested.
‘Brothers Phil and George Burbank, wealthy ranchers in 1920s Montana, have slept in the same bedroom for 40 years. Together they manage the day‑to-day running of their huge cattle farm, but while George is steady and decent, Phil is a whirlwind of malign energy: a skilled reader and craftsman, he’s also a vicious bully and outspoken homophobe. When George marries local widow Rose and moves her on to the ranch, Phil is appalled, and sets out to destroy the newcomer and her “sissy” son .. Savage has constructed, against scenery “vast and hostile to individual hope”, a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation …’
