Damsel (2018)

DAMSEL  (2018)  ¢ ¢
    D: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
    Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner,
    Robert Forster, Nathan Zellner, Joseph Billingiere
This movie is by the Zellner Brothers, who made "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter", and it's another tale about an obsessive (and apparently unhinged) quest. Robert Pattinson plays a guy who shows up  in an unnamed town on the coast of somewhere, with a guitar and a rifle slung over his back and a miniature horse in tow. He's on a mission  to rescue his fiancee, who's been kidnapped, and to insure they get hitched as soon as he finds her, he enlists the help of an alcoholic preacher, who has  come west to make a new start, a goal he hasn't come close to achieving. Some movies are offbeat and some are just off. I'd say "Damsel" is a little of both. Is there such a thing as a mumblecore western? Maybe that's what this is. Watch the first five minutes and you'll catch a colorful, tongue-in-cheek cameo by Robert Forster as a guy who's been out on the prairie way too long. It's the best thing in the movie, but then he walks off into the desert in his union suit, and the movie kind of wanders off, too. Proceed at your own risk.