Netflix has revealed the new trailer, posters and photos for The Power of the Dog, opening in select theaters on November 17 and arriving on the streaming service on December 1.
You can watch the trailer using the player below and you’ll find the poster underneath. Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Written and directed by Academy Award winner Jane Campion (The Piano), the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Frances Conroy, Keith Carradine, Peter Carroll, and Adam Beach.
The producers include Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Jane Campion, and Tanya Seghatchian. The crew also includes director of photography Ari Wegner, production designer Grant Major, costume designer Kirsty Cameron, composer Jonny Greenwood, and editor Peter Scibberas.
Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank (Cumberbatch) is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides.
The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose (Dunst), the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter (Smit-McPhee).
Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter – all except his brother George (Plemons), who comforts Rose then returns to marry her.
As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form – he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play.
His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil’s cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing.
Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?
The Power of the Dog is a See-Saw Films, Bad Girl Creek and Max Films production in association with Brightstar, The New Zealand Film Commission, Cross City Films and BBC Film.
The film is based on the Thomas Savage 1967 novel of the same name which is described as follows:
Set in 1920s Montana, this compelling domestic drama tells the story of two brothers — and of the woman and young boy, mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace.
From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice — and the intense passion and cruelty of his characters — holds readers in thrall.
