A towering Robert De Niro, an against-type Leonardo DiCaprio and a magnetic Lily Gladstone shine in the director’s gripping account of a shocking episode in US history
with the notion of power – the structures of it, the layers to it, the flow of it. But it’s not so much the individual at the top of the ladder who seems to intrigue the director, but rather those a couple of rungs down. Characters such as dogged journeyman contract killer Frank Sheeran in, clinging by his fingernails to the edge of the mob’s inner circle.
It’s also, however, one of the few niggling sticking points of this engrossing, far-reaching opus. In part due to the gentle prodding of his uncle, who would prefer to see all the oil money “flowing the right way”, Ernest marries Mollie , a “full-blood” Osage woman who holds a share of the “headrights” to the oil deposits on her family’s land. Gladstone, hitherto best known for her superb breakout performance in Kelly Reichardt’s drama, is magnificent here.
Mollie is the heart of a film that is populated by the heartless – or at the very least the clueless. When, in the third hour, her character is diminished by ill health, the movie responds in kind – the pulsing bass in a score that blends bluegrass and Native American rhythms weakens into a fluttering musical arrhythmia.
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