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Watch the first trail­er for Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch

14 Feb 2017

The direc­tor of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is back with a bang.

Eev­er since she marked her fea­ture film­mak­ing debut in 2014 with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, we’ve been keep­ing a close eye on Ana Lily Amir­pour. She is arguably a direc­tor who suf­fered slight­ly from the insane hype that sur­round­ed her break­through three years ago, but her lat­est effort looks ful­ly wor­thy of the atten­tion it’s sure to receive.

Described as a crazed vision of post-soci­ety Amer­i­ca” in our first-look review (which you can read here), The Bad Batch is a dystopi­an love sto­ry set among a com­mu­ni­ty of can­ni­bals in scorched plains of rur­al Texas. Excit­ed yet? How about if we told you it stars Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, Diego Luna, Gio­van­ni Ribisi and Jim Car­rey, and is c0-pro­duced by Anna­pur­na Pic­tures and Vice Films? Thought so.

There’s a dis­tinct George Miller / Nico­las Wind­ing Refn flavour to this first offi­cial trail­er, in which we gets flash­es of can­ni­bal­is­tic behav­iour and gra­tu­itous shots of buff bods all set to an ice-cool synth beat. There’s also a hint of a strong cen­tral per­for­mance from rel­a­tive new­com­er Suki Water­house, who looks well poised to hold her own it what appears to be a male-dom­i­nat­ed post-apoc­a­lyp­tic waste­land. We don’t know quite what to make of it, but we’re in.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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