{"id":752,"date":"2026-09-05T02:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/a-long-winter-review-andrew-haighs-subversive-winter-western-explores-grief-and-desire\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T02:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:30:23","slug":"a-long-winter-review-andrew-haighs-subversive-winter-western-explores-grief-and-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/a-long-winter-review-andrew-haighs-subversive-winter-western-explores-grief-and-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Winter Review: Andrew Haigh&#8217;s Subversive Winter Western Explores Grief and Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Telluride Film Festival, Andrew Haigh&#8217;s enigmatic new film premiered, offering a haunting portrait of a family navigating absence in the remote hills of Colorado. Adapted by Haigh himself from Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn\u2019s 2006 short story, the narrative shifts the original\u2019s 1930s Spanish Pyrenees setting to the vertiginous, snow-bound terrains of Korea War-era America.<\/p>\n<p>The film serves as a subversive examination of grief, desire, and the profound, infantilized isolation experienced by men devoid of female presence. Fiercely performed and captured with striking visual grace by cinematographer Andr\u00e9 Turpin, the story centers on Lester (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), a hardened rancher whose household relies on livestock, particularly rabbit breeding, for survival.<\/p>\n<p>With the matriarch missing, the family dynamic shifts as one son, Tommy (Kit Connor), prepares to depart for military service. His younger brother, Mikey (Fred Hechinger), remains behind, harboring secret same-sex attractions that he explores through glimpses of glossy Cosmopolitan magazines, which present an exoticized vision of urban life far removed from his isolated reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Haigh&#8217;s adaptation of Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn&#8217;s story reimagines grief and longing against the stark Colorado landscape in this poignant film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1712,1713,1714,757,1671,10],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-andrew-haigh","tag-colm-toibin","tag-ebon-moss-bachrach","tag-film","tag-telluride-film-festival","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}