THE SETTLERS Trailer (2024) Mark Stanley, Drama Movie

THE SETTLERS Trailer (2024) Mark Stanley, Drama Movie

THE SETTLERS Trailer (2024) Mark Stanley, Drama Movie
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"You never know who they are going to shoot." Mubi has debuted the official US trailer for an acclaimed Chilean indie drama titled The Settlers, originally Los Colonos in Spanish. This premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and also played at Toronto, New York, London, & Denver Film Fests. Described as a "visceral & visionary anti-Colonialist Western." Debut writer-director Felipe Gálvez asserts himself as a revelatory new cinematic voice with The Settlers, a searing and indelible take on the Western. A mixed-race Chilean rides south on an expedition led by MacLenan, a former Boer War English captain and Bill, an American mercenary, to fence off land granted to the Spanish landowner José Menéndez. Blending historical specificity with vivid visual style, the film creates a singular immersive vision, arresting in both content and form. Set against stunning mountain landscapes, Chile's Best International Feature Film entry to the 2024 Oscars is a visceral reckoning with national myth and the attendant violence. Starring Camilo Arancibia, Mark Stanley, and Benjamin Westfall. This looks damn good - it is definitely worth a look.