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‘The Settlers’ Trailer: Felipe Gálvez’s Acclaimed Anti-Colonialist Western Is Chile’s International Oscar Entry Pick

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Is the Western a dead genre? Not if Chilean director Felipe Gálvez has anything to do with it. Gálvez’s “The Settlers,” wowed audiences at the Cannes Film Festival this past May and won the Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize in the process.

Now it’s time for American audiences to see what all the fuss is about. READ MORE: ‘The Settlers’ Is A Scorching Western That Examines Chile’s Blood-Soaked National Myth [Cannes Review] And forget about even the best revisionist Westerns: “The Settlers” is a searing indictment of colonialism and a meditation on how manifest destiny was not a solely North American enterprise.

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