Slow West (2015)

I've not spoken about a film I really adored over Christmas, for me it was probably one of my favourites from 2015 to be entirely honest. It's the first feature length film from John Maclean and it really doesn't look like his first. Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is looking for his true love, Rose Ross (Caren Pistorius) who left Scotland to go to the West with her father. Unbeknownst to Jay there is a bounty on Rose and her father, soon enough he's accompanied by Silas Selleck (Michael Fassbender) an outlaw who serves as his guide who has some unsavory past friends (all of them bounty hunters). Where Jay is ignorant and naive in the ways of the West, Silas is the complete opposite and distrusts everyone, which creates for a fun dynamic, however not fresh that concept seems. 

It's a simple enough plot, but it's the way it's done that's a credit to it. There's a sort of - if Wes Anderson did a western feel over it. And it has actually managed to be charming, besides being visually stunning. Also Michael Fassbender is wonderful. End of story.