I Fratelli Sisters

New western is a reassuringly old-fashioned affair

Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers follows in a long tradition of European-made westerns. It has a primarily American cast, a French director and was shot in Spain. Its producers include everyone from its star, John C Reilly, to Belgian arthouse auteurs, the Dardenne brothers. In spite of its mongrel background, this is a reassuringly old-fashioned affair. Audiard isn't trying to reinvent the western or to use it to make telling points about today's society or how America has lost its way. Instead, in adapting Patrick deWitt's Booker Prize-nominated novel for the screen, he is paying affectionate homage to a genre he clearly admires. [...]

di Geoffrey MacNab, articolo completo (5386 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Independent 5 aprile 2019