Stephanie Zacharek ( Time): “Best of all, Campion and her cinematographer, Ari Wegner, use the expanse of screen they’ve been given as if it were a precious resource, making the most of a purple-velour mountain backdrop or the interior of the Burbanks’ large but airless house, a stifling arena of melancholy mahogany furniture and Persian rugs topped with gratuitous bearskins. Framing the gorgeous scenery through windows and doors (Montana is played by New Zealand), she and Campion have found an intriguing visual language to reflect the film’s themes of concealment and potentially disastrous disclosure, fully embracing the wide-open expanses of western landscape, but also restricting and containing it.” It’s in the rage on Phil’s face as he realizes his tight-knit relationship with his brother is coming to an end with George’s marriage to Rose.”Īnn Hornaday ( The Washington Post): “Exquisitely filmed by cinematographer Ari Wegner, “The Power of the Dog” exerts a dreadful tidal pull of doom and endangerment. It’s in George’s downward gazes at the floor, knowing he is helpless to stop his brother’s torments. It’s in the steely glares Peter shoots Phil when he’s being picked on. It’s in the pained and panicked look on Rose’s face when she begins drinking after another round of Phil’s harassment. From this perspective, we get a sense of what the cast may never verbalize. Monica Castillo ( ): “Campion and her cinematographer Ari Wegner write whole character studies in their close-ups. SEE ‘The Power of the Dog’ cinematographer Ari Wegner on working with Jane Campion on gorgeous Western landscape Ĭheck out some of Wegner’s glowing praises from reviews below:
For her work on the film, which earned rave review after rave review, Wegner has been singled by a number of critics, who praise her use of the gorgeous Western landscape (with New Zealand filling in for Montana) as a backdrop against which the film’s personal conflicts play out. Four years after Rachel Morrison cracked the glass ceiling as the first woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars with her bid for “Mudbound” (2017), Ari Wegner is poised to become the second for her work on Jane Campion‘s “ The Power of the Dog.” And since Morrison was unable to parlay her nomination into a victory, Wegner would become the first female DP to win an Oscar if she triumphs for the Netflix film.īased on Thomas Savage‘s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of the Dog” is set in 1920s Montana and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a rough-and-tumble rancher whose anger and bitterness have hardened him over the years and eventually set up a confrontation with his brother’s new wife ( Kirsten Dunst) and her teenage son ( Kodi Smit-McPhee).
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