The homesman (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Tommy Lee Jones
	Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank
	Country: USA, F
	Genre: Western
	Conditions of visioning: 08.09.2014, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: A woman Mary Bee (Swank) who is too clever and unemotional to attract men in her wild western region has to bring three other women having psychological problems to an institute. The travel is long and she takes the support of George Briggs (Jones).
Review: The goal being to show the daily life in the rude west is met. But the interest is small for me. Or not this way. I felt like in the Polar Museum in Tromso where I saw how life was (cold, hard, lonely) for the trappers in the XIX century. Taking this movie like this museum, it was interesting even the information flow is much less as everyone in the movie is a no-name. But for a movie, there was almost no rythm, no much visible evolution in the characters except at the very end. The acting is very sober, almost too much as Swank role shows a single aspect of a straight woman. The choice of locating the story in a region not much filmed for Westerns is also original and shows the distance taken with regard to classical Westerns. In brief, original Western but quite boring.
Rating: 4 /10