Australian-born singer/songwriter Nick Cave pens his second film (after “Ghosts … Of The Civil Dead”) and generates a prescient allegory about imperialism.
Set in the Outback of 1880s Australia, the John Hillcoat-directed movie involves two diametrically different outlaw brothers who are pitted against one another by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) a local law enforcer threatening to execute their younger brother unless Charlie (Guy Pierce) murders his black-hearted brother Arthur (Danny Houston).
Although Nick Cave does not appear in the film, he composed its ethereal soundtrack with his longtime Bad Seeds collaborator Warren Ellis.
It works like a charm.
Rated R. 104 mins.
