‘Slow West’ Trailer: Michael Fassbender Guides A Lovelorn Boy Through The Wild West
If you were following our dispatches from Sundance this year, you might already know to be excited forSlow West. Directed byJohn Maclean, the Western starsKodi Smit-McPheeas a young man who journeys from Scotland to the American West to find his lost love (Caren Pisorious). Along the way he’s joined by Silas (Michael Fassbender), a mysterious gunslinger who guides and protects him.
As much as we love grim, gritty Westerns, part of what makesSlow Westso intriguing is that it looks like so much more than that. It’s dark and violent, sure, but it’s also laced through with black humor, Biblical allegory, and even a slight a fairy tale feel. Watch theSlow Westtrailer after the jump.
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Slow Westcertainly has style to spare. From the opening notes of the trailer, it’s clear this is a unique piece of work. That tonal balance between twee and twisted has to be tough to master, but kudos to Maclean for nailing it and to A24’s marketing team for capturing that same spirit in a two-minute trailer.
If that charming trailer weren’t enough to get your attention, here’s what Russ had to say about it atSundance:
This film is to the western asHannawas to the espionage thriller — a meditative journey shot through with scenes of violence and characterized by allegorical storytelling that constructs its own reality so thoroughly that it has the feel of a fairy tale. […] Gorgeously filmed and enlivened by a deep sense of gallows humor,Slow Westfeatures yet another great performance from Michael Fassbender, and culminates in one of the most stylish and memorable sequences I’ve seen in a long time.
Slow Westwill be available exclusively on DirecTVApril 16and then it hits theaters and VOD onMay 15.Ben MendelsohnandRory McCann(the Hound fromGame of Thrones) also star.
