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Win a double pass to The Power of the Dog

Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides.

The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter – all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her.

As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form – he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil’s cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?

THE POWER OF THE DOG is a superbly crafted period western set against the backdrop of the early 1920s, Montana.

Exquisitely shot, with beautiful landscapes and compelling performances by all, this is a very powerful and complex story.

Directed by Academy Award winner, Jane Campion – who won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Best Director on the film – working with an incredible cast including accomplished actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

For a chance to win a double pass to THE POWER OF THE DOG, simple email competitions@filmink.com.au with your favourite revisionist Western and why you love it. Most creative entries win. Don’t forget to include your postal address with your entry.