2014, UK and New Zealand, 84 min, R, English
$5.00 at the door
At the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish leaves Scotland and journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas, a mysterious traveler, and is hotly pursued by an outlaw gang along the way. The director creates a gallery of startling grotesques for Silas and Jay to run into, and makes each encounter meaningful, driving the movie forward. One is an apparently liberal European expatriate pioneer who gives a duplicitous speech about settlers exterminating indigenous Americans while patronizing their culture. The movie starts out drenched in cynicism and nihilism, but gradually moves towards a feeling that the continuous paranoid suspicion needed for survival at all costs may not be worth it.
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