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‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Jacob Elordi & Daisy Edgar-Jones In Star-Crossed Noir-ish Queer Love Story — Toronto Film Festival
In 'On Swift Horses', Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi lead a noir-ish queer love story with Will Poulter, set against 1950s 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, noir-ish 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 partially in the sexually repressed ’50s, magnificently does just that in following the doomed romance of Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey’s characters all the way into the ’80s, but this scenario has too many detours diverting our attention to really make it memorable.
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