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Cinema

Just because The Homesman has a few women in it doesn’t make it a ‘feminist western’

But the film’s major problem is that it goes all John Wayne on us midway through

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

The Homesman

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The Homesman, which stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones and is set in the Nebraska territory in the 1850s, is being sold as ‘a feminist Western’, which is a bit rich. This is not a bad film. It’s modestly entertaining, in its way. And it does portray the harshness of life for the early women settlers.

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