"Pharaoh's Army" is the first movie directed by Robbie Henson, and I don't know any other movie directed by him. And it's a pleasant surprise, neither a pure western nor a real Civil War movie, rather an encounter between a small Union troop and a young woman farmer and her young son being in the South side in Kentucky (mixed 50-50 by both camp in Kentucky). The troop stops in that modest farm to get everything food they find. One soldier gets seriously injured during that search, so the troop has to stay. And learn to live together, kind of survival. It's based on a true story, and every actor play very well, with a special mention to Patricia Clarkson who plays the farmer (and only woman in the movie), she plays a possessed performance of the woman protecting her son, her farm and herself. She gets closed to Captain Abston whose caracter gets transformed by that intimate adventure. But inevitable tensions arrive with very authentic details. It gets even more realistic because shot in Casey County in Kentucky with great views in autumn. Definitely not an Hollywood movie, it's an authentic story of people who learn and change with War. Not to be missed.
Don't expect after Kris Kristofferson, he only appears a few minutes.
Review of Pharaoh's Army
