Damsel
Robert Pattinson (Twilight), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) lead this comedy Western nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the 2018 Berlinale.
"It’s a classic tale of the Old West: Samuel Alabaster is a man searching for his true love. Parson Henry is another, much drunker man, searching for a new start. Penelope is a woman who has found her own path. And Rufus Cornell is just a mean bastard with a taste for buckskin. There’s rotgut, rawhide, rootin’, tootin’, and hootin’. Plus, a little tiny horse." (Sundance Film Festival)
Less2018113 minsUSA
ComedyWestern
- Director:
- David Zellner ('Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter', 'Kid-Thing', 'Plastic Utopia')Nathan Zellner (feature debut)
- Writer:
- David ZellnerNathan Zellner
- Cast:
- Robert PattinsonMia WasikowskaDavid ZellnerNathan ZellnerRobert ForsterJoseph BillingiereDavid WingoGabe Casdorph
Damsel | Reviews
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Variety
"Damsel" is a comedy of attitude made with the indulgent touch of an art Western. That's a refreshingly original thing, though it's not as blow-you-away cool as the filmmakers seem to think it is.
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The Telegraph
What kept me smiling right through this overturned odyssey is that the men in it aren't brave pioneers or scary outlaws or any such thing - they're incorrigible nerds, a century before the word was coined.
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The Guardian
Pattinson shows he can also play a more sympathetic type of galoot - even crooning a pie-eyed love ballad called Honeybun, which Jonathan Richman might have rejected as too jejune.
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Screen Daily
But Damsel's real standout is [Mia] Wasikowska, who displays a steeliness as Penelope that's initially surprising but then becomes one of the film's driving forces.
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Los Angeles Times
"Damsel" is a deadpan art-western prank, a sly fusion of classical technique and postmodern sensibility.
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Hollywood Reporter
A haywired second half cancels out a diverting first half in this comic Western.
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