Phil has secrets that he is not ready to admit to himself, much less to those around him.īased on Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the same name (and a forgotten classic of queer literature), Campion's film can be mistaken for a Western, give it the prefix "neo-" and safely interpret it as unambiguous or, at most, strictly binary. Unlike his soft and compliant brother George, Phil wears his loneliness, masculinity, enclosed stink and stripped down skins proudly, like leather trousers ingeniously concealing his incompetence. His past unexpectedly lurks in his Latin and Greek studies at Yale-his career could have taken off in earnest-but instead Phil has settled far outside the city limits. Surrounded by loyal followers-helpers and a herd of cows, Phil is tough, principled, and equally unprincipled. More than 20 years after losing his close friend and mentor Bronco Henry, with whom he was bound not only by friendship but also by something more hidden and unspoken, he has become a hermit, not at all a devout monk, rarely washed and not about to return to civilization. When George marries local widow Rose (Kirsten Dunst), lonely Phil decides to get revenge.
The Burbank brothers, Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George (Jesse Plemons), own a small ranch and have lived together inseparably for 40 years. A reserved and oppressive rancher in Missouri tries to separate his brother from the local widow, but instead finds unexpected love himself. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Savage.
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