{"id":27626,"date":"2022-02-06T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27626"},"modified":"2022-02-06T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:19:41","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-film-the-power-of-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27626","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new film &#8220;The Power Of The Dog&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a career of 30 odd years, New Zealander Jane Campion has only directed eight feature films and one of them was the wonderful &#8220;The Piano&#8221;. There has been a period of 12 years between &#8220;Bright Star&#8221; and &#8220;The Power Of The Dog&#8221;. This latest work, which she both wrote and directed, is a kind of western set in Montana in 1925 but it is really a tale of repressed sexuality based on a cult novel and therefore can be compared to &#8220;Brokeback Mountain&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The archetypal art house movie is one with slowness and opacity and this film is very slow (indeed glacial) and very opaque (starting with the title itself). Furthermore I found the the sudden transformation of the central wounded character unconvincing. However, the acting, most notably by the English Benedict Cumberbatch, is distinguished and the cinematography &#8211; it was actually shot in New Zealand &#8211; is wonderful. Whatever I think, the critics have lauded this film and it is set to win many awards.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a career of 30 odd years, New Zealander Jane Campion has only directed eight feature films and one of them was the wonderful &#8220;The Piano&#8221;. There has been a period of 12 years between &#8220;Bright Star&#8221; and &#8220;The Power Of The Dog&#8221;. This latest work, which she both wrote and directed, is a kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27628,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions\/27628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}