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‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Jacob Elordi & Daisy Edgar-Jones In Star-Crossed Noir-ish Queer Love Story That Struggles To Find Its Mojo — Toronto Film Festival
A review of On Swift Horses which stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi in a noirish queer love story with Will Poulter set against 50's California
Into this setting Shannon Pufahl placed her debut novel which was a prize winner for Lesbian fiction but in the movie version this becomes a more complicated romantic drama, mixed with gambling, noirish tones, horse racing, and a complex love triangle that don’t all mesh as well as they might, but give this attractive and talented cast an ‘A’ for trying to make it all plausible. The real romance for him comes upon hooking up professionally and personally with Henry ( Diego Calva) and the secret of Julius’ past comes into full focus as they start getting in over their head in poker business as well as a sizzling hot sexual affair. Fellow Travelers, which also takes place -partly – in the sexually repressed 50’s magnificently does just that in following the doomed romance of Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey’s characters all the way into the 80’s, but this scenario has too many detours to divert our attention to really make it memorable.
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