The Proposition
United Kingdom, Australia
2005
104 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
Synopsis
Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the three Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the gang’s mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley’s proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and – more importantly – save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days. —IMDb
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John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat (born 1961) is an Australian screenwriter and film director. Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia, and was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a child, his paintings were featured in the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He has repeatedly worked with Nick Cave and also the band Depeche Mode. His film The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, and was released in the U.S. in November 2009. —Wikipedia
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João Azevedo
4Sep11
I dont even know what to say about this movie... Stunning screenplay from nick cave, the soundtrack is amazing, Guy Pierce has a scary good performance, the Australian landscape is drop dead beautiful and John Hillcoat manages to surprise me yet again with another masterpiece.
Shane Buckland
14Aug11
Forfeiting the American frontier for the Australian outback this is honestly one of the greatest Westerns ever made. Lyrical and brutal, it takes its cues from the likes of Peckinpah, Leone, Roeg and even Jarmusch. A powerful slice of cinema depicting civilisation's advance into the wild and the violent and somewhat foolish struggle to suppress man's primal instincts with refined customs and conventions.
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice, Telluride and Toronto. The Road
By David Hudson on September 3, 2009
The Road, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been knocked around
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By Marcus WP on December 23, 2010
This is a great modern western that stands out above most because of its dark, moody, atmosphere (probably due to nick cave’s influence). For years, there have been plenty of Australian films that… read review
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By jaredmobarak on June 8, 2009
Late nineteenth century Australia seems to have been quite a hellish place indeed if we are to believe what Nick Cave and John Hillcoat have given us here. From the unflinching, seeming authenticity… read review
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