THE POWER OF THE DOG Cinema Intro + Q&A | TIFF 2021

The team behind THE POWER OF THE DOG in conversation with TIFF following its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst lead Jane Campion’s drama about two brothers whose lives change when a widow and her son arrive at their ranch. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit . Set in Montana in the 1920s, Jane Campion’s hotly anticipated new film is an enthralling revisionist western awash in sublime expanses and nuance, capturing a landscape and a people driven by the fantasy and folly of western expansion. Adapted from Thomas Savage’s cult novel of the same name, THE POWER OF THE DOG tells the story of successful rancher brothers George (Jesse Plemons) and Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch, also appearing at the Festival in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain) Burbank, whose relationship sours when the more mild-mannered George marries local widow Rose (Kirsten Dunst). Rose and he