The Homesman
As a perfect mixture between hardness,violence and poetry, The Homesman open out an uncommon Western. In that, women become heros but also victims of darkness and obscureness without any way out, kindness is so scare that people compare is it as refrain of forgetten folk song: “Take me a token and love me away”…
16 October 1940, Lamesa, Texas, USA
11 December 1996, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 November 1956, Mitchell Field Air Force Base, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
23 October 2002, Huntsville, Texas, USA
9 May 1986, New York City, New York, USA
23 September 1947, Paris, France
4 January 1974, Esbjerg, Denmark
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
11 May 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
June 13, 2016
A fair portion of Tommy Lee's life has been dedicated to telling stories about schlepping variously incapacitated or dead people long distances through the Wild West.
June 06, 2016
If Jones wants to become a great director of a dying genre, he cannot simply hope to mimic what the masters did. He must instead explore the meaning of each image he creates.
December 04, 2014
The film has more surprising turns than a honeycomb has bees. Absurdity and calamity collide without warning.
June 09, 2015
A stubbornly uncommercial and richly challenging inversion of Americana, this time with an eye towards the pioneer women pushed to the margins of our history books.
November 28, 2014
Swank and Streep are big stars with famous faces, and yet disappear into their roles; these characters convey both quiet strength and gentle kindness.
December 05, 2014
If only things had started out on more solid ground and headed toward some sort of resolution. If only.
November 26, 2014
As the protagonists near their final destination, The Homesman offers a critique of civilization that's almost as pessimistic as its critique of frontier life, suggesting that in every corner of America there have always been more losers than winners.
November 28, 2014
Swank, an Oscar winner for "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby," is outstanding, getting to the essence of Mary Bee's pride and pain. And in the showier role, Jones impressively peels away layers of rambunctiousness to reveal George's humanity.
June 07, 2016
If 'The Homesman' proves anything, it's that there's no movie that can't get a shot in the arm from a couple scenes of Tommy Lee Jones hollerin' and dancin'.
May 29, 2015
It reminds us repeatedly of how fragile civilization was in the Old West.
December 06, 2014
Parts of The Homesman are a slog to sit through, but the movie ends on a note of absurd comedy that also breaks your heart, suggesting that some people, no matter the circumstances, are incapable of change.
November 19, 2015
With his sophomore effort, The Homesman, Jones gives us a revisionist Western that defies expectations at every turn. It's a genuine art film in the vein of Aussie productions like The Proposition.
