A visually splendid, blood-soaked Australian anti-Western (written and scored by musician Nick Cave). When notorious outlaws Charlie Burns (Pearce) and his younger brother are captured by the local law, the sherrif (Winstone) offers Charlie the proposition of the title: save his younger brother by killing his older, really psychotic one (Huston). "Mr. Cave left Australia years ago, but his native country's penal-colony origins and mysterious beauty have clearly retained a strong grip on his imagination." (NY Times) "A movie you cannot turn away from; it is so pitiless and uncompromising, so filled with pathos and disregarded innocence, that it is a record of those things we pray to be delivered from." (Roger Ebert) More at thepropositionfilm.com
2006, color, 1 hour 44 minutes, Australia/UK