Film Review – The Homesman

Trying to create a film as severe as he is, Tommy Lee Jones saddles up quite a grim picture with “The Homesman,” his fourth directorial effort and first western since 2005’s “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.” A casual viewing of “The Homesman” is not advised, as Jones is determined to communicate the harsh conditions and mental drain of prairie life. The feature requires a special mindset that’s open to exceptionally managed filmmaking and an evocative sense of location, because when the movie gets dark, and boy does it ever, it also retains a strange beauty about it that’s a testament to Jones’s talents behind the camera and his way with casting. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com