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Article: Outback-set 'Proposition' sizzles in Peckinpah tradition: 'The Proposition' (star)(star)(star)1/2.(Movie review)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2006
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Byline: Michael Wilmington
May 19--In "The Proposition," the violent, elegiac traditions of the American movie Western are pushed to a fever pitch that irresistibly recalls the great Sam Peckinpah movies of the 1960s and '70s, even though this film is set half a world away, in 1880s Australia. It's a smoldering adventure drama about the ways violence and prejudice can pervert justice and plunge a community into madness, and the moviemakers-- director John Hillcoat and writer/composer Nick Cave--bring explosive, hallucinatory energy and a touch of "Deadwood"-style misanthropy to their tale. Focusing on three outlaw brothers (Guy Pearce, Danny Huston and Richard ...