The appearance of “The Homesman” suggests that despite its present state of debility, the Western, that grand American form, still lives and breathes. This particular film, in fact, demonstrates the versatility of the genre, its possibilities for change and variation. It employs many of the traditional elements of its past, but handles them in some […]
The Homesman
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Film Review: “The Homesman”
With its bleak, unsparing depiction of life on the frontier in the 1850’s, “The Homesman” stands in stark contrast to what we tend to think of as a traditional Western. Far from the romantic odes to the heroic figures of the Old West we’re used to seeing, the film instead delivers a mournful tale of […]
