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OUT 28 MAY CINEMAS

Kelly Reichardt extensively reworks Jonathan Raymond’s novel The Half-Life for a quiet and patiently paced drama that subverts expectations of westerns. Starring John Magaro (The Umbrella Academy) as a timid cook, aptly nicknamed Cookie, the story features the ingredients of many genre compatriots: the chase for wealth, malicious landowners and a dangerous criminal endeavour.

However, where diverges is in the mixing of these ingredients. Cookie, who struggles to provide food for the fur trappers he travels with (much to their ire), finds companionship and a risky prospect when he meets Chinese immigrant King-Lu (Orion Lee,

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