![]() ![]() En route they pick up the traumatised Rosalee, who is terrified by the sight of Yellow Hawk’s chained family, but whose sympathies shift as the mismatched group encounters Comanche raiders and vicious fur-trappers. But these territorial wars are ending, and the close-to-retirement captain is ordered to escort his dying nemesis, Cheyenne chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), home to the Valley of the Bears in Montana. “We are all prisoners,” says Blocker, who has “a war bag of reasons” for hating “savages”, and a brutal reputation for claiming “more scalps than Sitting Bull himself”. Meanwhile, Captain Joseph J Blocker (Christian Bale) captures and torments an Apache family, rounding them up like cattle for imprisonment at the isolated Fort Berringer. In New Mexico, 1892, the remote homestead of Rosalee Quaid (Rosamund Pike) is besieged by Comanche raiders who burn her house and massacre her husband and children. Wrestling with the oddly contemporary contradictions of frontier mythology, it’s a tough but tender tale of blood and dust, populated by characters who express themselves most eloquently through gestures rather than words, accompanied by a superb Max Richter score that wrings mournful song from troubled landscapes. ![]() There’s a gritty integrity and plaintive poetry to this end-of-an-era western from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper. ![]()
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