The Claim (2000)
Country: GB/CAN/FR
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 121m
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan, Sarah Polley
Synopsis:
California in the 1860s: a stage brings both a Union Pacific surveyor and a dying mother and her daughter to the prospector town of Kingdom Come. They will have a profound effect on the fate of the town and its 'mayor', a man with a guilty secret in his past.
Review:
The film evokes the wilderness as both beautiful and inhospitable, and Mullan gives an outstanding performance as a man who, like Hackman in Eureka, has got what he wanted and now festers in moral turpitude, until he gets his shot at redemption. Like all Hardy adaptations (this one being of The Mayor of Casterbridge) it is dour and slow-moving, but the relocation pays dividends.
Country: GB/CAN/FR
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 121m
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan, Sarah Polley
Synopsis:
California in the 1860s: a stage brings both a Union Pacific surveyor and a dying mother and her daughter to the prospector town of Kingdom Come. They will have a profound effect on the fate of the town and its 'mayor', a man with a guilty secret in his past.
Review:
The film evokes the wilderness as both beautiful and inhospitable, and Mullan gives an outstanding performance as a man who, like Hackman in Eureka, has got what he wanted and now festers in moral turpitude, until he gets his shot at redemption. Like all Hardy adaptations (this one being of The Mayor of Casterbridge) it is dour and slow-moving, but the relocation pays dividends.
Country: GB/CAN/FR
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 121m
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan, Sarah Polley
Synopsis:
California in the 1860s: a stage brings both a Union Pacific surveyor and a dying mother and her daughter to the prospector town of Kingdom Come. They will have a profound effect on the fate of the town and its 'mayor', a man with a guilty secret in his past.
Review:
The film evokes the wilderness as both beautiful and inhospitable, and Mullan gives an outstanding performance as a man who, like Hackman in Eureka, has got what he wanted and now festers in moral turpitude, until he gets his shot at redemption. Like all Hardy adaptations (this one being of The Mayor of Casterbridge) it is dour and slow-moving, but the relocation pays dividends.