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UNITED STATES · 2015
The Revenant
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.
Cinematic DNA
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.
Tarkovsky in 'Stalker' or 'Andrei Rublev', or Kurosawa in 'Ran', those films are in my DNA, they are part of my aesthetic point of view. For 'The Revenant', they were definitely in my mind.
— Alejandro González Iñárritu · Interview with Alejandro G. Iñárritu about THE REVENANT
Films with Similar Themes
survival · revenge · betrayal · frontier exploration · man vs nature
