My favorite movie at Telluride this year. Marvelous Campion. Beautiful, suspenseful. A Western in American space but without the black and white moral alignments of American Westerns- the story is built on incremental revelations of character.
Cumberbatch drives the emotional build but the resolution plays out on Kirsten Dunst's face from beginning to end. Compellingly complex sexual politics in a genre where the sex and politics are usually quite straightforward.