ON SWIFT HORSES Trailer: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, and Will Poulter Gamble for Love in Queer Melodrama

Following its TIFF premiere last fall and upcoming screening at SXSW where it will close the festival, Daniel Minahan’s 1950s-set romantic drama On Swift Horses is making its way to U.S. theaters. Adapted by Bryce Kass from Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel, it stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, and Sasha Calle as a group of different, but closely connected young people pursuing their own loves and dreams in the 1950s American West. Sony Pictures Classics has now released the official trailer ahead of its release in theaters on April 25.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Muriel and her husband Lee are beginning a bright new life in California when he returns from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms. When Julius takes off in search of the young card cheat he’s fallen for, Muriel’s longing for something more propels her into a secret life of her own, gambling on racehorses and exploring a love she never dreamed possible.

I said in my review from TIFF “The beauty of the locations and the people in them pulls the viewer into a state of awe. Both Edgar-Jones and Elordi give truly heartfelt performances full of quiet depth. Poulter, Calva, and Calle all have plenty to offer ahead in their careers, and this is merely a warm-up for them. Director Daniel Minahan brings a lot to the table here in his second feature, giving his actors enough space and vulnerability to conjure the invigorating chemistry that powers the movie. On Swift Horses is graceful and heartfelt, at times sentimental but never dull or repetitive. When the sun rises in the film’s gorgeous closing shot, it is a new day for our protagonists. Fate brings them together, pulls them apart, then puts them on a path to an open, unknowable future.”

Watch the official trailer below.

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