Like, what's going to happen? Who's going to be hurt? Something's going to go wrong, I just know. And, you know, I really didn't know where I was with it. But, you know, I guess the honesty, the truth of it and the fact that it had a narrative that just grew more and more interesting and exciting. What I loved about it was the cowboys (laughter), which, you know, that's always been a big thing for me, cowboy life. Thomas Savage moved to a ranch with his mother, which is the story which is really told in the film as well, and the brother of the man that his mother married was talented - like, great chess player and, you know, went to Yale, et cetera - but also, like, a really hardened cowboy and terrible bully. This was not writ large and some sort of romantic version of the West. What drew you to this story?ĬAMPION: I think what most impressed me was that it was clear that Thomas Savage had lived on a ranch, that this was his life. SIMON: Film's drawn from a 1967 American novel by the late Thomas Savage. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.Īnd Jane Campion, the Academy Award winner and nominee who's already won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for directing this film, joins us from Los Angeles. "The Power Of The Dog" is a Western shot in New Zealand about two brothers - one conspicuously kind, one a bully and a lout - who run a ranch in Montana of the 1920s, where there's riding, roping, drinking, gelding, bleeding and scheming, but not always where you're looking.
Jane Campion has directed her first film in 12 years.
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