Evan, in a recent article, listed The Proposition as a worthy but unsung film.  I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been working for some time on explaining what I found so fascinating about it, and here is my best attempt so far to put it into words.

As a long time Nick Cave fan I was probably a bit too geeked out at the idea of seeing what he could do with a screenplay.  What resulted did not disappoint.  Very few singer/songwriters can cross over into film successfully, but you have to admit that Cave’s writing has always been unrelentingly cinematic.  And a “Western” set in the Australian outback seemed to be a particularly well-suited backdrop for his characteristically brutal brand of story telling. …Continue reading this entry