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The Proposition

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Original title: The Proposition
Year: 2005
Running time: 104 min.
Country: Australia
Director: John Hillcoat
Screenwriter: Nick Cave
Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
Cinematography: Benoît Delhomme
Cast: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, David Wenham, John Hurt, Emily Watson, Richard Wilson
Producer: Co-production Australia-United Kingdom;
UK Film Council, Surefire Film Productions, Autonomous, Jackie O Productions
Genre: Western. Action | 19th Century
Synopsis: Late-19th century Australia, and Cpt. Stanley (Winstone) has captured the younger two siblings of the notorious Burns brothers. With them in custody he offers middle brother Charlie (Pearce) a deal: head into the outback to kill older brother Arthur (Danny Huston), and the youngest (Richard Wilson) won’t be hanged.

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#40 Best Australian Movies of all time

Critics' reviews

"The cast of 'The Proposition' is reason enough to see the film (...) [Huston and Pearce] are memorable"

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"[Hillcoat] has made a movie you cannot turn away from (...) The actors invest their characters with human details all the scarier because they scarcely seem human themselves (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Production design, costuming and d.p. Benoit Delhomme’s non-travelogue widescreen compositions unite in birthing the first genuine, blood-and-thunder Aussie Western"

Richard Kuipers: Variety
"It's all too literal and bluntly ugly. It's revisionism that's forgotten what it was meant to revise."

Noel Murray: AV Club
"Script, direction and performances [come] together with a rich and beguiling synergy (...) A violently complex masterpiece of genre revisionism."

Luke Buckmaster: The Guardian
"The conclusion is exhausting and exhilarating; the film hugely entertaining and troubling. Watch it. Then watch it again (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Nev Pierce: BBC

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