A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Cinematography
Alonso Ruizpalacios shoots snow like it's judging everyone.
Acting
Peter Mullan's eyes contain entire broken centuries.
Score
Michael Nyman's melancholy drones haunt long after.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Winterbottom transplanted Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' to the Gold Rush, proving British miserabilism travels beautifully to the American West.
The entire town of Kingdom Come was built at 8,000 feet in the Canadian Rockies, then actually burned for the climax — no CGI, just beautiful destruction.
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