On Friday evening, halfway through the march of this year’s New York Film Festival, the legendary director and writer Jane Campion joined Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee and N…
Friday’s event spilled over into Central Park’s Tavern on the Green for an intimate after party. The evening continued “The Power of the Dog’s” fall tour across the world’s film festivals, from Venice to Telluride to Toronto. It also sustained the film community’s continued elation to find Campion, whose movies have offered a few of the better-drawn feminist characters in film, promoting her first feature in 12 years.
As an adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of the Dog” is drenched in the low simmering sexuality and suffuse, carnal imagery that Campion does best. “The film is clearly a complex way of approaching masculinity. I think it’s a solid container for thinking and rethinking the men in this world,” Campion offered at the press conference before the premiere on Friday. “I see this film as a departure from my other films, but maybe it’s a nice bookend to ‘The Piano,’” she said. “This is another big landscape film exploring the masculine myth.”
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