Brimstone (film)
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| Directed by | Martin Koolhoven |
| Produced by | Els Vandevorst |
| Screenplay by | Martin Koolhoven |
| Story by | Martin Koolhoven |
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| Music by | Junkie XL |
| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
| Edited by | Job ter Burg |
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| Distributed by | Momentum Pictures |
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148 minutes |
| Country |
 Netherlands France Germany Sweden United Kingdom Belgium
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,061,096 |
Brimstone is a 2016 western thriller film conceived, written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Kit Harington and Carice van Houten. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2016.
It is scheduled for a theatrical release in the United States sometime in March 2017.
From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger. In four chapters we see how she must fight to keep herself and her family safe, but also how things have become the way they are.
On February 5, 2015 Guy Pearce and Mia Wasikowska were the first to be announced as part of the cast of the film. Later Robert Pattinson came on board to portray an outlaw along with Carice van Houten.
In May 2015, Koolhoven confirmed that Jack Roth has joined the cast of the film. In June 2015, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Dakota Fanning and Kit Harington had replaced Wasikowska and Pattinson in the film, respectively.
Principal photography began from June 15, 2015 and took take place in Hungary, Spain, Austria and Germany.
Brimstone was shown in competition at the Venice Film Festival where it was met by a rousing applause, yet stirred great controversy amongst the press. On the one hand critics praised the movie as brave and important, though others were shocked by the violence. While The Independent wrote "Brimstone is raw and very powerful filmmaking, a movie that can't help but get under your skin", Variety wrote it was "hifalutin exploitation", blaming it on the Netherlands (the place of birth of writer-director Koolhoven), writing "It is, after all, a country that ever since the 1960s, especially in Amsterdam, has profferred a more liberal view than almost any other place of what might euphemistically be termed 'youthful sexuality.'"
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