The Sisters Brothers

It's a dusty western narrated in lavish, melancholy tones by Eli Sisters, the younger of the awkwardly named Sisters Brothers. I couldn't help but be reminded of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Tom Stoppard's play and film - Eli a huskier Gary Oldman as shot by the Coen brothers. He's an odd sort of cowboy assassin, craving the quiet life of a shopkeeper, rendered sentimental over his one-eyed and flagging horse, delighted by the discovery of teeth-brushing and obsessing over his weight, asking for boiled vegetables at the saloon. And yet he's the same guy that finds his boot heel grinding into the shattered skull of a dead prospector.

It ventures close to the surreal with odd little tangents that will have me revisiting this story again in the near future to catch all the little pieces hidden inside.