The Proposition

Directed by John Hillcoat, this Aussie feature perfectly re-creates the charbroiled landscapes and cruel psychodrama of the old Sergio Leone westerns...

Any movie that can cling to your memory with as much brutal power as this fantastic film is unquestionably a proposition worth taking.

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.

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 doesn't offer much that hasn't already been said about lawless frontier towns, bonds between outlaws or the settling of the West.

The Proposition brings to mind Australia’s Outback flicks from the 1970s, mood pieces in which philosophical renegades seek to come to terms with their own restless souls while navigating merciless and uncompromising territories.

The movie's sunburned and anarchic setting creates a memorable atmosphere that sticks to the screen as much as it does its leads' matted hair and filthy clothes.

May be one of the most realistic portrayals of how the West was really won.

I know by heart the revisionism of this western. [Full review in Spanish]