The Power of the Dog – 8

A haunting film, with Kodi Smit-McPhee as the spectral Peter, Benedict Cumberbatch as the half-crazy Phil and Kirsten Dunst as the drunken and lost Rose. Jesse Plemons plays Phil’s appropriately bovine brother George, wandering aimlessly outside the action. The superb cinematography, featuring beautifully empty New Zealand landscapes, made me wish, as with Nomadland last year, that I was in a theater, where Jonny Greenwood’s score would undoubtedly have been enhanced, as well. The plot pulled you along, wondering where it was going; and although I quickly figured out the ending, it left me with many questions, which I will ponder in a separate post.