Winter in the Blood

Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer, The Twilight Saga) wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana, hungover and badly beaten. He returns home to his ranch on the reservation, only to find that his wife, Agnes, (Julia Jones, The Twilight Saga) has left him. Worse, she's taken his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to town find her— or perhaps just the gun— beginning a hi-line odyssey of inebriated and possibly imagined intrigues in town with the mysterious 'Airplane Man', (David Morse, The Hurt Locker) a beautiful barmaid, and two dangerous Men in Suits. Are they real? Or spirits guiding him away from his true path? Virgil's quest brings him face-to-face with childhood memories of his beloved, lost brother Mose.

Twin directors Alex and Andrew Smith, in their first movie since The Slaughter Rule, (which introduced the world to Ryan Gosling and Amy Adams) have made a hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch’s classic 1974 novel of Native American life. The film was shot in the badlands of Montana and is accompanied by an unforgettable score from the acclaimed Austin band, Heartless Bastards and features brand new songs by Robert Plant, Cass McCombs, Cowboy and Indian and Black Prairie, among other musical artists.