1849, in the town of Garlow , California route, Patrick (Emile Hirsch) , a loving and peaceful family man from the Wild West tries to survive a failing business , being married to the French Audrey Tate (Déborah François) and having two children . An once-peaceful frontier town becomes a den of vice after vicious bandit Dutch Albert (John Cusack) and his gang arrive and begin gunning down their opposition . Undertaker Patrick Tate must now choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face as the death toll continues to rise. Emile Hirsch and John Cusack star in this dark and sinister Western about the arrival of an outlaw and his henchmen in a Christian town on the American frontier.
Well crafted Western with interesting screenplay by director himself , Ivan Kavanagh . Ivan is a multi-award winning Writer and Director best known for Son (2021) and The Canal (2014) . In 2019, Ivan's western Never Grow Old produced by Ripple World Pictures, starring John Cusack and Emile Hirsch, was released in cinemas worldwide, also to critical acclaim. Although atmospheric , it's also downbeat and sometimes just downright nasty . The story is almost terrific as a bounty killer drifter comes to strange frontier town just in time to reckoning villagers and and seize the town . This stirring picture contains a powerful examination of morality and hypocrisy on people of a little town. The film is made in somewhat similar style to ¨High plains drifter (1973)¨ and ¨Pale rider (1985)¨ , only this time a drifter appears to have been sent from hell rather than heaven to execute a string of chaos , detruction and slaughter . Set in a swampy and lugrubious landscape, this story about human decay, injustice and guilt is written and directed by Ivan who became known around the world with the terrifying film Canal . Revolving around some engaging themes , when unknown and cruel bounty hunters settle in the quiet town of Garlow, Patrick begins to prosper, causing him a serious moral dilemma : continue with the profits or protect his family. Cast in pretty good , giving decent interpretation . Emile Hirsch is nice as an Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises , while Deborah Francois is his beautiful wife, John Cusack as an extremely villain man who stubbornly seeks to bring chaos as well as death and Danny Webb as the fanatic , stiff-upper-lip preacher Pike.
The motion picture was well directed by Ivan Kavanagh , though shot in slow-moving and deliberately made . Ivan is a good craftsman who was born in Dublin, Ireland. Other work includes Tin Can Man (2007) and The Fading Light (2010) which picked up 'Best Irish Film' and 'Best Actor' for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010, and screened in the World Cinema section of the Pusan International Film Festival 2010, Korea. Ivan's critically acclaimed psychological horror, The Canal (2014) produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board and Film Agency Wales, had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival 2014 in New York, and was subsequently released in cinemas worldwide to critical acclaim. 2021 saw the release of Ivan's latest critically acclaimed film Son (Park Films), which he wrote and directed, a psychological horror film, Emile Hirsch would work together again two years later . And Emile Hirsch won the Silver Raven Award at the 39th Brussels International Festival of Fantasy. Ivan is the creator, writer and executive producer of a six part TV crime series The Vanishing Triangle (Park Films, 2023) and has a number of feature film projects in the works. Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable Western.
Well crafted Western with interesting screenplay by director himself , Ivan Kavanagh . Ivan is a multi-award winning Writer and Director best known for Son (2021) and The Canal (2014) . In 2019, Ivan's western Never Grow Old produced by Ripple World Pictures, starring John Cusack and Emile Hirsch, was released in cinemas worldwide, also to critical acclaim. Although atmospheric , it's also downbeat and sometimes just downright nasty . The story is almost terrific as a bounty killer drifter comes to strange frontier town just in time to reckoning villagers and and seize the town . This stirring picture contains a powerful examination of morality and hypocrisy on people of a little town. The film is made in somewhat similar style to ¨High plains drifter (1973)¨ and ¨Pale rider (1985)¨ , only this time a drifter appears to have been sent from hell rather than heaven to execute a string of chaos , detruction and slaughter . Set in a swampy and lugrubious landscape, this story about human decay, injustice and guilt is written and directed by Ivan who became known around the world with the terrifying film Canal . Revolving around some engaging themes , when unknown and cruel bounty hunters settle in the quiet town of Garlow, Patrick begins to prosper, causing him a serious moral dilemma : continue with the profits or protect his family. Cast in pretty good , giving decent interpretation . Emile Hirsch is nice as an Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises , while Deborah Francois is his beautiful wife, John Cusack as an extremely villain man who stubbornly seeks to bring chaos as well as death and Danny Webb as the fanatic , stiff-upper-lip preacher Pike.
The motion picture was well directed by Ivan Kavanagh , though shot in slow-moving and deliberately made . Ivan is a good craftsman who was born in Dublin, Ireland. Other work includes Tin Can Man (2007) and The Fading Light (2010) which picked up 'Best Irish Film' and 'Best Actor' for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010, and screened in the World Cinema section of the Pusan International Film Festival 2010, Korea. Ivan's critically acclaimed psychological horror, The Canal (2014) produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board and Film Agency Wales, had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival 2014 in New York, and was subsequently released in cinemas worldwide to critical acclaim. 2021 saw the release of Ivan's latest critically acclaimed film Son (Park Films), which he wrote and directed, a psychological horror film, Emile Hirsch would work together again two years later . And Emile Hirsch won the Silver Raven Award at the 39th Brussels International Festival of Fantasy. Ivan is the creator, writer and executive producer of a six part TV crime series The Vanishing Triangle (Park Films, 2023) and has a number of feature film projects in the works. Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable Western.