Jane Campion and Jonny Greenwood “Anatomy of a Score”
Director Jane Campion and Composer Jonny Greenwood dive behind the music of The Power of the Dog in an intimate discussion on their collaboration, the film’s unique instrumentation, and how powerful pieces of music move audiences and build worlds.
Written and directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog is “mesmerizing,”, “astonishing,” “a masterpiece.” Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
This conversation was exclusively recorded for Netflix Playlist; a virtual music showcase across the Netflix film, series, and documentary slate.
Inspired by sensational scores, this curated playlist of performances, discussions, and never-before-seen original content will inspire and certainly, entertain you.
MOVIE STUDIO
Netflix
DIRECTOR
Jane Campion
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Jonny Greenwood
Synopsis
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, revelling 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?