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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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thedudeabides

13May12

Existential and spiritual. This is the best western of the decade.

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Radka

12Mar12

It´s beautiful. Very harsh, very poetic, very Nick Cave. Beautiful.

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Zach Anderson

26Feb12

"Is that what we are, misanthropes?" "Good Lord no, we're a family." This movie is haunting in the best of ways. Love it, love all of it.

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Broken Flowers

4Feb12

"Life is very sweet, brother, who wish to die."

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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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Mi-figue, mi-raisin

By Benoît on May 8, 2012

The Proposition est le troisième film de John Hillcoat, le monsieur de l’apocalyptique The Road. Ce qui découle de ce western aux allures atypiques est d’une coquille remarquablement belle, mais sonnant…  read review

The Proposition

By Daniel A. DiCenso on April 13, 2012

First there is an intense shoot-out at an isolated homestead in the middle of the desert. After the gunsmoke clears a burly lawman warily walks into the shattered cabin hoping to intimidate the bloodied…  read review

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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 jaredmo​barak 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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Machinema short film directed by John Hillcoat

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