Slow West, the debut feature for writer/director John Maclean, is showing as part of the 2015 Sydney Film Festival.
Set at the end of the 19th Century, Slow West is an American western filtered through the eyes of European filmmaking. Scotsman Jay Cavendish (Smit-McPhee) is deep in the wilderness when the film begins, having come to America from his home to find his lost love Rose (Caren Pistorius) who left with her father after a tragic accident. Jay meets quiet and stoic outlaw Silas (Michael Fassbender) and the two join up on the condition that Jay will pay Silas to deliver him to safety. It soon becomes apparent, though, that Silas has his own reasons to find Rose and her father.
Slow West was the World Cinema Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and is picking up some pretty ecstatic reviews, so this is one not to be missed.
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