Saints go marching
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It begins with the stuff that gives many action films a good end: a bloody shootout; cops on one end, outlaws on the other. But where Ain’t Them Bodies Saints runs from there will test its meddle as a thinking man’s movie, a lovesick drama that isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty.
Set with roving eyes across the dust-studded hills of west Texas, circa 1975, the first full-length trailer for Saints has arrived, and it feels like what might have been if Terrence Malick directed the Coen Brother’s 2007 Oscar-winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men.
Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck star as lovers torn apart by blood and justice and one striking act that ended a storm of violence. While Affleck spends every waking hour attempting a prison break, Mara finds herself playing the hinge of a deadly love triangle between her detained lover, and the man who put him away, a soft-spoken, but intensely earthen deputy played by Ben Foster.
After several failed attempts, Affleck escapes in hopes of an illicit rendezvous with Mara and a new life with the daughter he’s never met as Foster and law enforcement follow in hot pursuit. Saints is the third feature film directed by David Lowery, better known as an indie editor (Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, Amy Seimetz’s Sun Don’t Shine).
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints arrives Aug. 16. Watch the trailer below:
