The Salvation – Trailer

I love westerns, always have, Clint Eastwood has a lot to do with my love of the genre. I love the classics, I love spghetti westerns and I also love the grittier ‘revisionist’ westerns like The Long Riders, Eastwood’s own Unforgiven and the Nick Cave penned Australian western The Proposition. Now we Mads Mikkelsen staring in Scandinavian western The Salvation, a Cannes Official Selection title which promises more of that… can’t wait.

Directed by Kristian Levring, the 1870’s-set pic also stars Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mikael Persbrandt, Eric Cantona and Jonathan Pryce. Levring co-wrote the script with Susanne Bier’s frequent collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen.

The large-scale drama follows Mikkelsen’s settler John and his arrival in the American West. When his family is murdered, he kills the culprit, unleashing the fury of notorious gang leader Delarue. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, the peaceful pioneer must turn vengeful hunter, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town’s black heart.

May 2, 2014 | Categories: Trailers | Tags: Action, Actors, Clint Eastwood, Controversial, Cult, Disturbing, Eric Cantona, Eva Green, Festival, Foreign, Frontier, Icons, Independent, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jonathan Pryce, Kristian Levring, Legend, Links, Mads Mikkelsen, Nick Cave, Nudity, Scandinavia, Suspense, The West, Thriller, Video Clips, Violence, Western, Westerns, Wild West | Leave a comment