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Jauja
Why this pick
Its Patagonian frontier becomes a stark, dreamlike moral wilderness, matching The Settlers’ austere landscapes, colonial violence, and slow-burn sense of disorientation.
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MOVIE2023 1h 37m CHL
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Wind
Why this pick
A spare, unnerving frontier chamber piece that shares The Settlers’ hostile isolation, elemental scenery, and mounting psychological unease around life at the edge of settlement.
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God's Country
Why this pick
Its severe wide-open terrain and carefully escalating confrontation echo The Settlers’ use of landscape as pressure, with restrained pacing and a quietly menacing colonial undertow.
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The Proposition
Why this pick
A brutal revisionist western whose scorched beauty, deliberate tension, and uncompromising view of settler violence align closely with The Settlers’ grim historical reckoning.
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Zama
Why this pick
Its colonial South America is rendered as an oppressive, absurdist waiting game—formally precise and sensorially unsettling in a way that complements The Settlers’ critique of empire.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A mixed-race Chilean, rides south on an expedition led by MacLenan, a former Boer War English captain and Bill, an American mercenary, to fence off land granted to Spanish landowner José Menéndez.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sam Spruell
Colonel Martin
Alfredo Castro
José Menéndez
Mariano Llinás
Francisco Moreno
Marcelo Alonso
Vicuña
Benjamin Westfall
Bill
Luis Machín
Monseñor
Agustín Rittano
Capitán Ambrosio
Camilo Arancibia
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