<em>Damsel </em>Is a One-Note Satire of Classic Westerns
Robert Pattinson stars as a cowboy trying to rescue his kidnapped fiancée, but all is not as it might seem.
begins with a view of a gorgeous, windswept desert somewhere in the American West, an alternately alluring and frightening arena where many an old-fashioned heroic narrative has been forged. A wizened priest (Robert Forster) talks to a young parson, Henry (David Zellner), telling him the only thing awaiting him on the frontier is violence and savagery. Not from Native Americans (“Some are lousy, some not, just like everyone else, I reckon,” he says),the very land they’re foolishly trying to conquer.
