The Claim (2000)

Directed by

Michael Winterbottom

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United Kingdom, France, Canada

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 111 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man rises to power in a snowy frontier town by trading his wife and daughter for a gold claim. Years later, his past returns and threatens to destroy everything he built.

bleakslow-burnmelancholicvisually starkcoldisolatedsomber

What happens

The Claim is a 2000 Western romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Sarah Polley, Nastassja Kinski and Milla Jovovich. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman. The film did poorly at the box office and received mixed reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Madame Bovary (2000)
• The Winter of the Fairies (2000)
• Last Resort (2000)
• Deeply (2000)
• Between the Moon and Montevideo (2000)
• Romain et Juliette (2000)
• The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
• Gods of Youth (2000)