Film Review — The Power of the Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch is superb in Jane Campion’s slow-burn, gripping, nuanced drama exploring masculinity and misogyny.

Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon Cinema
4 min readJan 22, 2022

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Credit: Netflix

Masculinity and misogyny are under the microscope in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, adapted from the novel by Thomas Savage. It’s Campion’s first film in twelve years; one of her best, and likely to…

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon Cinema

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com