Synopsis
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Alejandro González Iñárritu told cinematographer Lubezki to study Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1966) and Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala—how these filmmakers filmed nature not as backdrop but as spiritual force. DiCaprio's face pressed against snow and rock becomes an extension of geography itself. Tarkovsky's belief that landscape has interiority runs through every frame.
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