Synopsis: Set in a near
future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on
the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political
policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic
relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust
has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the
loss of Earth’s precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm
Michael Shannon lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome
Kodi Smit-McPhee and Mary Elle Fanning. He defends his farm from
bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But
Mary’s boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He
wants Ernest’s land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.
From writer/director Jake Paltrow comes a futuristic western, told in
three chapters, which inventively layers Greek tragedy over an ethereal
narrative that’s steeped deeply in the values of the American West.
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