The Settlers
7/10Watched 20261h 41mWestern · DramaReleased 2023
Chris's take
A slow, austere film that lingers through its bleak moral questions
A slow-burner for sure, perhaps almost too restrained at times, but one that lands with real force when it matters. This film left me thinking for a good while after it ended: bleak, morally unsettling, and quietly powerful in the way it confronts the violent history beneath the civilised surface of modern society.
Director
Felipe Gálvez
Cast
Camilo Arancibia
Segundo
Heinz K. Krattiger
Samuel
Mark Stanley
MacLennan
Alfredo Castro
Menéndez
Benjamín Westfall
Bill
Agustín Rittano
Ambrosio
- J
Juan Imbert
Vargas
- M
Mariano Monsalve
Fabio
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Plot overview
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.