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Releasing on Jan 12, 2024

2024
1 h 37 m

2024
1 h 37 m

The Settlers

Summary At the turn of the 20th century, three horsemen embark on an expedition across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, tasked with securing a wealthy landowner's vast property. Accompanying a reckless British lieutenant and an American mercenary is mestizo marksman Segundo, who comes to realize, amidst rising tensions within the group, their t...

Directed By: Felipe Gálvez Haberle

Written By: Antonia Girardi, Mariano Llinás, Felipe Gálvez Haberle

2024
1 h 37 m

2024
1 h 37 m

The Settlers

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews

82

User Score Available after Jan 12, 2024

Summary At the turn of the 20th century, three horsemen embark on an expedition across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, tasked with securing a wealthy landowner's vast property. Accompanying a reckless British lieutenant and an American mercenary is mestizo marksman Segundo, who comes to realize, amidst rising tensions within the group, their t...

Directed By: Felipe Gálvez Haberle

Written By: Antonia Girardi, Mariano Llinás, Felipe Gálvez Haberle

Top Cast

Sam Spruell

Colonel Martin

Mark Stanley

Alexander MacLennan

Alfredo Castro

José Menéndez

Emily Orueta

Granddaughter

Mariano Llinás

Francisco Moreno

Marcelo Alonso

Vicuña

Benjamin Westfall

Bill

Heinz K. Krattiger

Samuel

Luis Machín

Monseñor

Agustín Rittano

Capitán Ambrosio

Camilo Arancibia

Segundo

Mishell Guaña

Kiepja

Adriana Stuven

Josefina Menéndez

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Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews

100% Positive
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Metascore

Universal Acclaim Based on 8 Critic Reviews

100% Positive
8 Reviews

0% Mixed
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May 26, 2023

Its unflinching depiction of the brutal genocide of the Selk’nam people intermingles with pointed contempt for the egotistical yet pathetic colonists.

By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW

May 26, 2023

It’s one of the most chilling art-Westerns to come along in some time, as provocative for its ideas, dialogue, and characterizations, as for the beauty of its empty landscapes.

By Christian Blauvelt FULL REVIEW

Oct 3, 2023

The film is a blistering laceration of the contradictions and hypocrisies of European racism.

By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW

Dec 18, 2023

It’s an engrossing story, even at its most gruesome or theatrical. For my money, it’s more satisfying, cinematic, exotic and allegorical than the thematically and historically similar “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

Oct 3, 2023

A brutal, chilling indictment of capitalist colonialism, The Settlers mixes shocking violence with acute apathy.

May 26, 2023

While spare early passages are narratively opaque and formally ornate to a distancing fault, the riveting second half––including a chilling reckoning with others occupying the desolate land and a well-executed structural gamble––brings profound expansion to this chilling story of atrocity.

By Jordan Raup FULL REVIEW

May 26, 2023

The Settlers shows promise: it’s the work of a daring director intent on developing a distinctive and original voice.

By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Quijote Films, Rei Cine, Quiddity Films, Volos Films Co, Cinema Inutile, Ciné-Sud Promotion, Film i Väst, Finite Films and TV, MK2 Films, Snowglobe Films, Sophie Dulac Distribution, Sutor Kolonko

Release Date Jan 12, 2024

Duration 1 h 37 m

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Awards

Golden Rooster Awards

• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

Cannes Film Festival

• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

Almeria Western Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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