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Nov 14, 2014 · It's a risky film. Sometimes the risks pay off, sometimes they don't, but the feeling of risk infuses the film with chaos, humor, violence, beauty. "The Homesman" doesn't play things safe, and that's a welcome change. Mary Bee Cuddy ( Hilary Swank) is a middle-aged woman, born in upstate New York, who has bought land in the Nebraska territory.
Nov 15, 2014 · But The Homesman has almost none of the romance of the West. Instead, it portrays how civilization insinuates itself in sly little ways, a termite scratching into a seemingly impermeable wall of ...
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May 4, 2024 · The Homesman is a brutal look at American frontier life in the 1850s, showcasing harsh realities and unrelenting struggles. Lead performances by Swank and Jones shine in this underrated Western ...
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Nov 14, 2014 · Set in a flat, unforgiving stretch of the American frontier in the decade before the Civil War, “The Homesman” is both a captivating western and a meticulous, devastating feminist critique of ...
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Apr 15, 2021 · Midway through Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, The Homesman, Mary Bee Cuddy wakes up and, from her bedroll by the frame wagon, hears the good-for-nothing cull Briggs, the claim-jumper she saved from hanging, shouting, “Whooeee!”. There, by the fire, he is dancing. It astonishes her. Strong drink, she supposed, affected different men ...
The Homesman strikes a resounding chord that all filmmakers in the Western — or any genre — should strive to reach. If they’re lucky, they’ll find their way . . . Jones has lit it brightly. Critical Movie Critic Rating: 5. Movie Review: S.I.N. Theory (2012) Movie Review: Blackhat (2015) Tagged: cowboys, novel adaptation, suicide. Movie ...
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Nov 21, 2014 · Like a bizarre number of contemporary westerns, The Homesman yearns to be "elegiac", and George Briggs, given scruffy, ursine menace by Jones, is the very embodiment of the fading frontier spirit.
