Glendon Fred Swarthout was an American writer. The story is character-driven, sad, and historically accurate as near as I can tell. Gritty 'Homesman' is no cowboy cliche. Nobody is a pillar of mental health. Men are busy with spring chores, and the task falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, an independent and rugged spinster who has her own farm. This is being touted as a 'feminist' western, which confounds me utterly. He contradicted her.
The book comes late in his career and, I can assure you, he knows what he's doing here. "There was some originality to this story, " he says. After reading the book, and looking it up online, I find that it is "soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones. " Much of the movie was shot on Tommy Lee Jones's own ranch. Mary Bee sat silent. The story elaborates on this journey, detailing the hardships encountered along the way and the final disposition of their charges. She knows she will need help with the journey, and this comes in the form of a ne'er do well claim jumper. The occasion for our meeting at the Cannes Film Festival is his new western The Homesman – his fourth film as a director, if we count two TV movies – in which capable bluestocking Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) volunteers to take three women who have succumbed to frontier madness to the nearest town with a hospital. Early on, there is a wonderful scene in which Cuddy has dinner with (she thinks) a potential suitor. Swarthout died in 1992. The fact that they can be grief-stricken one moment and dancing a wild jig the next is what makes this film – probably the best Western since Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven – so inscrutable, so distinctive and, finally, so moving. Then, something disappointing happens and The Homesman swiftly becomes the George Briggs show.
Both photos are of Mr. Brown's home. The dynamic between Briggs and pious straight-talking spinster is one of the pleasures of the film. Oh, you'll stay awake. While the acting is stunning, the cinematography and score also play huge parts in why you feel so wretched after watching The Homesman. It is clear that they need to be transported to a place that can treat them, and the minister (John Lithgow) has a connection with a church in Iowa that has agreed to take them in. She can shoot, she can cook and clean, she can stand up to any man – but still, she is ultimately defined by whether or not she can attract a man for marriage, for protection, for help and perhaps for a little physical attention. This story is about a homesteading woman (an ex-school teacher and "spinster") who volunteers to take 4 women who have each had a mental breakdown after a harsh winter back east to be cared for by family.
A very well written story about the hard life faced by the pioneers on the frontier. A parade of cameos fares less well, with distracting turns from Meryl Streep, and especially James Spader, threatening to pull the film away from its hard-earned grimness. Swank is exceptionally good - the intelligence, integrity, and inner pain all there in her eyes, her every subtle gesture. It is an intricately designed film, unpredictable in its execution and refusing to fall into any genre. The current movie stars Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank.
Additional Film Information: Cast: Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Evan Jones, Jesse Plemons and Meryl Streep. The women, as Jones establishes in a series of jolting flashbacks that approach horror-movie shock value, have been driven almost catatonically mad by life on the frontier, and Mary Bee – perhaps understanding their plight with more empathy than any man could or would, or possibly sensing premonitions of her own future – sees it as something of a calling to deliver them from this windy, dust-blown evil. Jones, directing his first movie since the bleakly effective, Peckinpah-flavoured 2005 neo-western The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, plays George Briggs, a crusty, unreliable claim jumper required to repay a life-saving debt to the "plain as an old tin pail" prairie spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). For much of the novel Swarthout gives voice to a group that is so often ignored. "If I don't get drunk around these women, I'll lose my own mind. Both of these characters could have found redemption in a number of creative ways. The "homesman" of the title is an individual who returns people to their homes, in this case four women who have suffered mental breakdowns from the stress of living hard lonely lives on the prairie and having such horrific things occur as a 19 year mother losing three children in three days to diphtheria, another having to fend off wolves in the winter, a third delivering an unwanted child completely on her own, and the fourth beaten by an abusive husband. She recruits a gruff and shady claim jumper to help her in the task. Well, I eventually started breathing again. Special mention for glimmer and fascinating cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto he splendidly reflects the impressive outdoors from the filming locations: Lumpkin, Georgia, San Miguel County, Santa Fe, Oikay Owinger Pueblo, New Mexico. In the absence of any local insane asylums, it's agreed that the women would be taken by wagon to a town in Iowa, where a local church group would ensure they were reunited with their kin in their hometowns.
Running Time: 2 hrs. After they lay me low they'll have a high time with the five of you. In the sparest of prose, Swarthout conveys worlds of loss, misunderstood motivations, and unacknowledged emotions. Crazy, petulant and a low-life opportunist, the two make a mighty pairing and their journey is filled with incredibly rich, gritty and storied roadblocks which the pair must overcome if they are to succeed & survive — both the elements, dangers and each other! We plunge the depths of despair by seeing the true natures of their hardship, all of which are stemmed from the mistreatment from men. Contribute to this page.
Then when I saw that the story was falling apart in my hands, I took up skimming the book, which is how I saved my sanity.
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