Brimstone: La hija del predicador

Dos horas y media de sufrimiento de la protagonista femenina a manos del protagonista masculino. En un entorno épico del oeste, en cuatro actos predeciblemente anacrónicos y sin el procesamiento cineasta del autor. Los momentos aterradores se alternan con escenas baratas y la narrativa carece de subtramas que le añaden capas de pensamiento. Se centra únicamente en la profundización del mal en el personaje de Guy Pierce, sin explicar sus motivos. A veces emocionalmente intensa y sofocante, pero lamentablemente una historia unidimensional como las de una novela de supermercado para amas de casa. Y con un desenlace ridículo. (24.03.2024)

Brimstone es una brutal celebración del fuerte espíritu femenino que desafía la repugnancia y perversión masculina. A pesar de muchas escenas asquerosas y violentas, algunas de las cuales para mí ya estaban completamente fuera de límites, considero a Brimstone como un western moderno perfectamente elaborado con un guion excelente y actuaciones excelentes. Especialmente Guy Pearce interpreta a esa monstruosidad tan perfectamente, que masoquistamente imaginé todos los posibles guiones de cómo torturarlo y destruirlo. En contraste perfecto con él, aparecen en primer plano las frágiles bellezas de Dakota Fanning y Emilia Jones. Y a todos los fanáticos de Juego de Tronos seguramente les agradará la presencia de dos estrellas de esta serie. No puedo encontrar películas adecuadas para las vacaciones de Pascua, pero lo supera el hecho de que es una joya más grande que la otra. (21.04.2019)

An interesting piece, very unconventional, but unfortunately I found it irritating in its narrative style. The film is divided into four chapters that are scattered in time, making it unnecessarily confusing and over-complicated, which I personally don't like very much. What bothered me the most was when a character dies in one chapter and lives again in the next, I hate that. Another downside is the strong resemblance between the actresses Dakota Fanning and Emilia Jones, I had a hard time telling which one of them was on the set, which is a great shame because the visuals are perfect, the atmosphere is raw and no violence or sex is spared, for which I give a big plus. The highlight for me was the second chapter. The running time is also too long for my taste, so despite the excellent scenes, I can't give it an above average rating. PS: Guy Pearce was really diabolical. 65%. (11.03.2017)

To his own detriment, it deals to much with constantly increasing suffering purely for suffering´s sake. In this case, more than anywhere else, less would be more. The constant martyrdom of the central heroine caused by all men makes the viewer become indifferent, not disgusted. At the same time, this would fix even the biggest snag in the form of too long footage. In any case, as an impressively constructed drama of a (non) western with a patina of a fatal Greek tragedy about a loving "a little" misogynistic father and a "ungrateful" excellent daughter that love men too much. Especially because there are some moments of hypnotic enchantment and because of great acting of Dakota. (31.03.2017)

If it wasn’t said in advance that this was a western movie, I would have thought that the Dutch director has laid the foundations for this story somewhere under the Alps. The locations truly encourage it. Okay, fine… Let’s consider Brimstone a western movie. A western movie, shot by a Dutch director with the support of various European funds and with American actors, who showed the best they are capable of. For example, Guy Pearce is truly the ultimate bastard in this movie, who makes you think for the first half an hour just so he can make you sick for the rest of the movie. Dakota Fanning shows how incredibly she matured as an actress, because she managed to play a partially silent role absolutely fantastically. Even the atypical narration divided into chapters makes sense, even though it is not completely linear. All of that makes Brimstone a very unique, very uncompromising and rather rough movie that looks like a western, but I would rather compare it to a raw European historical drama with an atypical cast and a touch of American environment. (03.11.2017)