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Slow West (2015)

Slow West poster
Directed by
John Maclean
Genre
Western film, action film, thriller film
Country
New Zealand, United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 1,061 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young Scotsman travels across the American frontier to find the woman he loves. He is followed by a mysterious bounty hunter who has his own reasons for the journey.

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What happens

Slow West is a 2015 revisionist Western film written and directed by John Maclean in his directorial debut. It stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young Scotsman searching for his lost love in the American West, accompanied by a bounty hunter played by Michael Fassbender. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2015, where it was awarded the Sundance Institute's World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic Winner. The film was first released on 15 May 2015 in the United States, with a simultaneous release on video on demand. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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