The duo Gian Maria Volonte and Tomas Milian works wonderfully. Sergio Sollima conveys a number of political messages in this story. Gian Maria Volonte is a history professor, intellectual, neurasthenic, depressive, who goes out west, and meets Tomas Milian, alias Beauregard Bennet, leader of the Wild Horde and of a community that follows him, who is uneducated, a brute, probably illiterate. Their association is going to work to lead to what the title of the film evokes, to conclude an evolution of the two characters which makes the salt of the film. We won't tell more about it, otherwise it would reveal some elements.
Sergio Sollima signs a western, slightly intellectual, but exciting. Gian Maria Volonte is perfect to interpret tortured characters, but it is especially Tomas Milian who is very good here, with an interpretation more withdrawn than usual, less grimacing, and who finally steals the show to Gian Maria Volonte. And we can add the character of William Berger who also contributes to the richness of the scenario (we do not understand well his evolution during the story, but it serves the film well).
A very interesting Western, thanks to its subtext with intellectual pretensions, well integrated with the chromos of the genre: dirt, cruelty, shootings, chases.
A masterpiece for Sergio Sollima?
Sergio Sollima signs a western, slightly intellectual, but exciting. Gian Maria Volonte is perfect to interpret tortured characters, but it is especially Tomas Milian who is very good here, with an interpretation more withdrawn than usual, less grimacing, and who finally steals the show to Gian Maria Volonte. And we can add the character of William Berger who also contributes to the richness of the scenario (we do not understand well his evolution during the story, but it serves the film well).
A very interesting Western, thanks to its subtext with intellectual pretensions, well integrated with the chromos of the genre: dirt, cruelty, shootings, chases.
A masterpiece for Sergio Sollima?