Brimstone
The life of a young beautiful married but mute woman named Liza, who lives peacefully with her small family, has been turned upside down when her bug enemy comes to power, the thing that makes her struggle, as she struggles against survival, as he does his best, in order to take everything she loves away from her.
19 July 1968, Sussex, England, UK
1981, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
3 October 1981, Stockholm, Sweden
30 April 1945, Gummersbach, Germany
5 September 1976, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
March 14, 2017
Ostentatiously unpleasant, mired in a grim solemnity nowhere near as intelligent nor enlightening as the film seems to think it is.March 12, 2017
Exhausting, pretentious, and tedious. It's one of the most painfully boring, overlong and disappointing Westerns since Heaven's Gate.March 11, 2017
Gruesome and dark as it can be. But could I stop watching? Not me!March 24, 2017
Though this Western is interesting and artistically daring, it's far too brutal and sadistic (and far too long) to recommend for casual viewing; it requires strong resolve and a stomach to match.March 09, 2017
For all the visceral depictions of hatred and violence and human destruction, it feels as if the director is chasing his own tail and forgetting about making it all mean something.April 19, 2017
[Director Koolhoven] blends the grand idea of divine retribution from Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider with the noir grimness of HBO's Deadwood, to make something all his own.March 09, 2017
The carnage pushes you away (and wears you down), even as the genre, industrious cast, beautiful landscapes and stark, often striking visuals pull you in.March 10, 2017
There's an odor that lingers long after "Brimstone"'s final fade-out. And it's not sulfur.March 16, 2017
The religious fundamentalism ideologically rooted in this country finds allegorical terror in the diabolical Preacher. Reveling in the brutality, fanaticism and warped self-righteousness ultimately at the dark, messianic heart of US exceptionalism today.March 10, 2017
I'm all for heroic exertion in pursuit of one's art, but in this case I wish Koolhoven had tried therapy first.March 09, 2017
A film that ostensibly aims to expose the subjugation of women spends an awful lot of time hurting and humiliating them.March 17, 2017
Fanning is in fine form as a woman who can't vocalize her emotions, though it's Pearce here who steals the show.