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Nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, this eccentric and mysterious comedy-western boasts a phenomenal cast composed of Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and the UK’s Michael Ward. With a fine soundtrack offered by British composers The Haxan Cloak and Daniel Pemberton, the film is co-produced by UK-based Access Entertainment.

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Set in a fictional small town in New Mexico, we join the story in May of 2020, just as the Covid lockdowns begin. Here we find Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), who find themselves at a deadlock in their opposing views on how to handle the pandemic.