Set during the Gold Rush as the days of wild frontier mountain men give way to civilization, it finds Zebulon, a cursed fur trapper, drifting between life and death. In love and on the run from a ubiquitous posse, his story unfolds in a series of volatile, surreal episodes fitting of Acid Westerns such as El Topo.
It’s an allegory for the modern day, for an American Dream suffocated by greed and a country left directionless. Yonder has the mark of a classic, feeling as if it has been there all along, somewhere between McCabe and Mrs. Miller and High Plains Drifter, and yet feeling all at once fresh and original.
Grade: A
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