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- Often called a "feminist western", The Homesman is decidedly not feminist and instead incredibly sexist.
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Nov 12, 2014 · “This movie I would not call completely a Western. I think it is more than that. To me it is more of a feminist movie,” Swank said.
The Homesman has been called a "feminist western". A critic and interview with Hillary Swank noted that the lives of women during this time are rarely explored, as opposed to men, while also commenting on today's societal pressures for women to be married and have children and to be perfect wives and mothers.
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Nov 13, 2014 · Hilary Swank is willingly sacrificing her voice doing back-to-back interviews for the sake of her latest film, “The Homesman,” which opens on Friday. A rare female-driven Western, co-starring and directed by Tommy Lee Jones, earned praise at its premiere at Cannes, and has been riding a range of other festival appearances since.
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...
- Tommy Lee Jones
Nov 16, 2014 · Jones has directed, co-written and stars in a subversive western, The Homesman, which explores the female condition in the frontier harshness of 1850s Nebraska. Hilary Swank plays a resilient...
Nov 23, 2014 · Hailed as a ‘feminist western’ by some, The Homesman only is up to a point Mark Kermode , Observer film critic Sat 22 Nov 2014 19.04 EST Last modified on Wed 21 Mar 2018 20.20 EDT
Nov 21, 2014 · But what makes The Homesman a western of great merit and substance isn’t its gorgeous window-dressings or sly subversions in iconography, but the emotional connection it manages to convey through its contemplative treatment of gender, longing and how the two consistently intertwine.
