Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones anchor love quadrangle in On Swift Horses trailer

It's hard to tell what shape the romantic entanglement in this movie takes, but it definitely has more sides than a triangle.

By Emma Keates  |  February 13, 2025 | 1:58pm
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Fellow Travelers director Daniel Minahan took one look at the bi love triangle in Challengers and thought, “I can one-up that.” The romantic entanglement in his upcoming film, On Swift Horses, would be more accurately described as a “love pentagon” or maybe some sort of open-ended “love parabola.” Maybe it’s been over a decade since this writer took a geometry class, but even the most shape-blind among us should be able to see that this situation is one big mess. 

Jacob Elordi stars in the film as Julius, “a wayward gambler with a secret past.” He’s arrived in California to see his brother, Lee (Will Poulter) and his new fiancé, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) after Lee returns home from the Korean War. A “dangerous love triangle quickly forms” between the three, per the film’s logline, before Julius runs away to pursue a man he’s fallen for at the casino (Diego Calva). This inspires Muriel to pursue her own secret life gambling on racehorses and seducing the quadrangle’s (or whatever it is) fifth point, her neighbor Sandra (Sasha Calle). Like we said, mess.

On Swift Horses was adapted from Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel of the same name. It originally premiered last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is now set for a limited release in New York and Los Angeles starting April 25.

 
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