I saw
The Proposition today. It's a gritty, brutal western set in the early colonial days of Australia, and I found it to be an amazingly powerful film. The performances by everyone, Guy Pearce and Ray Winstone in particular, are fantastic.. the
visuals, oh my god, the visuals are spectacularly beautiful, showing off an arid, hellish side to outback Australia.
It's quite a violent film, but it's seldomly gratuitous and it never revels in it. The ending shook me up quite a bit. Highly recommended.