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‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones Wagers There’s More to Marriage in ’50s-Set Drama
Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter play brothers with opposite life goals in a literary adaptation that treats love as the greatest gamble of them all.
When “ On Swift Horses ” played as a secret screening at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January, at least half a dozen people walked out, not because it’s bad, but because a certain contingent of the normally open-minded art-house audience hadn’t signed up for a gay love story. Edgar-Jones gives a more nuanced performance, conveying the reticence Muriel feels when Lee proposes marriage and little by little revealing how she emerges into a surer sense of her own desires — not only sexual, but as an independent woman at a time when social norms steered single ladies toward the altar. Sandra (an excellent Sasha Calle) doesn’t identify herself as a lesbian — at this point, that notion seems entirely foreign to Muriel’s life experience anyway — but standing on the porch, extending an open palm for this stranger to spit an olive pit into, she’s someone people of either gender could easily become infatuated with.
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