Country: US
Technical: col 6 episodes
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Derek Hinkey, Jai Courtney
Synopsis:
Various and conflicting parties pursue the survivors of a massacre at the hands of Mormon militia pretending to be Shoshone Indians, during the establishment of the community of Latter Day Saints in 1857 Utah.
Review:
So dark, at times the cinematography all but bleeds the last drop of colour from the screen, this violent chase drama boasts a multi-stranded narrative the defies synopsis. Part political thriller, part pro-Native American tract, its chief characters are a mother who has murdered a man back east, and a mountain man seeking inner peace, but there are others to relish, like the fort owner, Bridger, and the young massacre survivor, Abish Pratt. The task before them seems so vast and hopeless, at times the film feels like The Lord of the Rings frontier-style. The cinematography and direction are magnificent, rendering the brutal and the elemental with equal savagery.
Country: US
Technical: col 6 episodes
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Derek Hinkey, Jai Courtney
Synopsis:
Various and conflicting parties pursue the survivors of a massacre at the hands of Mormon militia pretending to be Shoshone Indians, during the establishment of the community of Latter Day Saints in 1857 Utah.
Review:
So dark, at times the cinematography all but bleeds the last drop of colour from the screen, this violent chase drama boasts a multi-stranded narrative the defies synopsis. Part political thriller, part pro-Native American tract, its chief characters are a mother who has murdered a man back east, and a mountain man seeking inner peace, but there are others to relish, like the fort owner, Bridger, and the young massacre survivor, Abish Pratt. The task before them seems so vast and hopeless, at times the film feels like The Lord of the Rings frontier-style. The cinematography and direction are magnificent, rendering the brutal and the elemental with equal savagery.
