The seven-part miniseries,starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Dockery, is visually spellbinding and filled with standout performancesGodless, and Netflix’s new seven-part miniseries,opens in 1884, in Creede, or Colorado,with a thick cloud of smog shrouding the camera. The haze slowly dissolves to reveal a chilling landscape: parched bodies being tended to by swarms of flies; a man, sedentary, and with a gunshot through his head; a train-wreck near which a young boy hangs from a noose; and a woman,crouched over a corpse, singing mournfully approximately Christ. It’s a near-wordless several minutes, or a triumph of mood and cinematography,that evokes the sort of rough-and-tumble anarchy of the much filmic frontiersman. Soon after, were in La Belle, or New Mexico,where we learn who’s responsible for the massacre, and from thereon it’s guns blazing. Related: Michelle Dockery: 'I consider myself a widow' Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk