Slow West

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Slow West is the western adventure and feature-length directorial debut of John Maclean.  The Scottish film-maker, who wrote and directed this year’s winner of the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, assembles a strong cast for his first feature, with Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn and Caren Pistorious at the forefront.

Set in 19th century Colorado but undeniably European in sensibility, SLOW WEST tells the story of sixteen-year-old Jay Cavendish as he travels from Scotland to Colorado in pursuit of his lost love. Quickly confronted by the dangers of the American frontier, he teams up with a mysterious traveller named Silas, who agrees to protect him – for a price. Jay’s quest will be one of double-crossing, violence and peril as the guileless adolescent learns that the West takes no pity, least of all on the innocent.

Maclean described the film as being “mostly about young love,” adding “It is also a coming of age story. But it is a western seen through Scottish eyes with an outsider’s perspective. Through Jay, we see the reality of the Wild West at a time in America when there were Germans, Irish, Scottish and Swedish all displaced from their homelands and arriving in this new land, America.

Slow West is rated 14A.