Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

02 March 2021

Calm with Horses


I am actually not sure why I found Calm with Horses so boring, but it just seems to cover ground I've seen rather a lot of times. I adore Cosmo Jarvis, and I love Barry Keoghan, but this movie just doesn't have anything new going for it.

Calm with Horses was being called The Shadow of Violence for like two weeks, and although you can watch it on Netflix under the title Calm with Horses, the title that flashes on the screen is, indeed, The Shadow of Violence. Neither of these titles is really very good, but, then that begs the question of what title this film ought to screen under at all. There really isn't anything distinguishing this violent story of a heavy who works for a drugrunner from any other story of a heavy with a heart of gold who works for a crime racket.

This film does have Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan, but it isn't enough.

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