. The streamer has awards ambitions for the Western, a historical drama that unfolds on a Montana cattle ranch in the 1920s. It was recently selected to screen at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
“The Power of the Dog” will have its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Oct. 1. Last week, Film at Lincoln Center, the group behind the annual celebration of moviemaking, announced that this year’s festival will take place in-person. The 2020 edition was a digital affair due to COVID-19. Film at Lincoln Center also announced that Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” a black-and-white adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play, has been selected as the festival’s opening night film.
“The Power of the Dog” is adapted from a 1967 cult novel by Thomas Savage and follows a melancholy young widow who has moved to a remote section of Montana to live with her sensitive new husband, George . Their lives are increasingly complicated by the erratic behavior of George’s brother, Phil , whose mistrust of both Rose and her misfit son leads to tragic consequences.
Four of Campion’s previous films, a group that includes “Sweetie” , “An Angel at My Table” , “The Piano” , and “Holy Smoke” have been official selections of the New York Film Festival. “We couldn’t be happier to welcome Jane Campion back to the festival with one of her very best films,” said Dennis Lim, the festival’s director of programming. “Everything about ‘The Power of the Dog’ is alive with surprise: its narrative turns, its rich characterizations, its complex ideas about masculinity and repression.
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