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Director's Statement
Making Brimstone was a bumpy road, but the gratification was huge. I always knew that the story was a dangerous cocktail and that the movie would be controversial, but I never anticipated the reception would be so different in Europe as opposed to the United States. Western or not, I guess the movie is even more European than I thought it was.
Brimstone deals with religiously motivated sexual and physical violence. It’s about the place women had in the world and actually still have in large parts of it.
I tried to make Brimstone as exciting and gripping as possible; to put a new spin on the western genre, but if your concept of cinema is that you must never be uncomfortable watching a scene, or that there is a limit to how much a movie is allowed to get under your skin: don’t watch it. Brimstone is an emotional experience first.