Elegy on the Pioneer Trail: John Maclean's Slow West

This Sundance Grand Jury Prize–winning film transposes the rough and tumble of the American Wild West onto New Zealand's gentle peaks and pastures. The resulting screen experience both delights because of the film's innovative visuals, and discomfits by reminding viewers of the bloody history of Antipodean colonialism, writes Sarinah Masukor.

Additional keywords: postcolonialism, displacement, indigenous, race, landscape, western, genre, Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn.