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- 2015
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- 149 mins
- 15
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Oscar-winning historical adventure starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Rural Missouri in the 1820s: frontiersman and fur trapper Hugh Glass acts as a guide for a hunting party when the men are attacked by a local tribe. The survivors head for Fort Kiowa but on the way Glass is savagely mauled by a bear. Although left for dead and severely injured, Glass is determined to make it back to the fort and have his revenge. But ahead of him lies hundreds of miles of tough terrain, bitter cold and murderous tribesmen.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Jeremy Aspinall
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu's follow-up to his Oscar winner Birdman is another astonishing piece of film-making, moving from the bear pit of Broadway to the untamed wilderness of 1820s America. An epic true story of revenge and redemption, it stars a shaggy Leonardo DiCaprio as frontiersman Hugh Glass, who's mauled by a grizzly bear - a scene breathtaking in its savagery - while scouting on a fur-trapping expedition along the Missouri River. Mutilated but alive, he's then left for dead by treacherous trapper John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy, etching another performance of brooding menace), which spurs him on a gruelling 200-mile trek to take retribution. It's here that Emmanuel Lubezki's intimate, immersive cinematography, using only natural light, comes into its own. Glass's existential travails, whether beleaguered by the force of the weather, his mangled body, or pursuing Arikara Indians, are the audience's as much as his. Here's a movie where the elements ooze from every shot, and DiCaprio matches it by baring his wounds and his soul in an Oscar-winning performance of agonising honesty and intense emotion. This is majestic cinema and a technical tour-de-force, but DiCaprio ensures it's the heart of Glass that keeps it beating.
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rolenameHugh GlassLeonardo DiCaprioJohn FitzgeraldTom HardyCaptain HenryDomhnall GleesonJim BridgerWill PoulterHawkForrest GoodluckAndersonPaul Anderson (2)MurphyKristoffer JonerStubby BillJoshua BurgeJonesLukas HaasFrymanBrendan FletcherElk DogDuane HowardHikucArthur Redcloud
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rolenameDirectorAlejandro González Iñárritu
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Theatrical distributor
20th Century Fox
Released on
2016-01-15
Languages
English | French
Guidance
Violence
Available on
Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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