FILM
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
SCORSESE FINDS MURDER AND ROMANCE AT THE OLD WEST’S END
EDITED BY JOHN NUGENT
Muse, meet muse: Scorsese’s leading men, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, as venal Bill ‘King’ Hale and his nephew Ernest Burkhart.
Lily Gladstone (second left) shines as Osage native Mollie Burkhart;
Bill with FBI detective Tom White (Jesse Plemons);
An unlikely and complicated romance blossoms.
★★★★★
OUT 20 OCTOBER / CERT TBC / 206 MINS
DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese
CAST Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser
PLOT Oklahoma, the 1920s. When Native Americans of the Osage tribe are systematically murdered, federal investigators step in.
IN A HEARTBREAKING recent interview, Martin Scorsese lamented his advancing years. Quoting Akira Kurosawa, he said, “I’m only now beginning to see the possibility of what cinema could be — and it’s too late.” Thank the gods of cinema, then, that he still found time for Killers Of The Flower Moon: a piece of work as strong and sharp and vivid as anything in his remarkable career, and perhaps one he could have made only now. How many octogenarians can honestly claim to still be working at the peak of their powers, as he so evidently is?