The Proposition (2006)
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Richard Wilson, Danny Huston, Emily Watson
Screenwriter: Nick Cave
Producer: Chris Brown, Jackie O'Sullivan, Chiara Menage
Composer: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
DVD Info
Release:
Sep 19, 2006
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
Audio:
- DTS 5.1 Surround Sound - English
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - Spanish - Optional
- Closed Captioned - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Previews
- Commentaries - 1. Director and Writer
- Featurettes - 1. Behind-the-Scenes (5)
- 2. Deleted Scenes
Text/Photo Gallery:
- Photo Gallery
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Reviews
Guy Pearce seems to have boiled himself down into some kind of Guy Pearce Concentrate. Winstone looks like he's been sculpted from the Australian wilderness around him.
a mythic exploration of the ever shifting frontier between savagery and civilisation in an unforgiving landscape.
Any movie that can cling to your memory with as much brutal power as this fantastic film is unquestionably a proposition worth taking.
The finest, strangest and most uncompromising western to hit screens since Unforgiven.
Cave's screenplay is masterful in taking the trappings of the western genre and transposing them to the Australian Outback. There's an ebb and flow to his writing and there's also the sense that tragedy is inevitable. He also manages to work in the dep
An Australian western without genre traditions in mind -- instead, their movie explores the complexities of moral relativity.
This Aussie horse opera doesn't so much present an exotic, bizarro version of the Wild West as the apotheosis of it.
It's as strong a Western as you're likely to see, at least since Clint Eastwood gave us Unforgiven 14 years ago.
... a movie full of startling and sometimes beautiful moments
The Proposition depicts male brutality, both within and without the confines of the law, in a beautifully measured way that doesn't kill the intensity of the narrative--wild contrasts, ironic similarities, and all.
A beautifully shot tracker’s western that brings the Fordian poles of garden and desert to bear on the bushrangers’ Outback, this is also a revenge drama of substantial horror.
Despite perpetual rumors of its demise as a genre, the Western is alive and well in the Australian outback.
Beauty, brutality, some sly social commentary... plus another sweaty, shirtless performance from Guy Pearce highlight this Aussie western from the pen of Bad Seed Nick Cave.
When it comes to condemning the ancient Western code of violence, this film should practice what it preaches.
It echoes, if not captures, the genre's harshest narrative and poetically visual trademarks -- all that's missing is Monument Valley -- while rejecting any romantic notions about how people shape their worlds, and vice versa.
A visionary tale of a fragile civilizing impulse crushed by family loyalty and a lust for revenge in the vast Outback of the late 19th century.
It's well-acted and has a great premise, but doesn't add up to beans.
...blends the classic existential Western with the violence of a Sam Peckinpah sage saga
In the end, it feels like Nihilism for Newcomers or maybe Sartre With Six-Shooters.
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