TEsta or cross?
Type: Western for women
Director: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. With Alessandro Borghi, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, John C. Reilly, Gianni Garko, Peter Lanzani, Mirko Artuso

A western with Buffalo Bill and the bad Indians but set in the Roman countryside, where in 1891 the American hero performed with his Wild West Show.

The problem is that Buttero Santino beats his cowboys proving more skilled in tamed a wild horse: Pride is stronger than the orders of the master who would like to punish his disobedience, but he did not deal with pinkimpatient and rebellious wife who kills him to stop the whips in Santino. Starting an escape where Buttero is considered the killer, but it is the woman who proves more enterprising It is more lucid than man.

Alessandro Borghi and Nadia Tereszkiewicz in “head or cross?”

After the excellent King crab, The couple of directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis continues to overturn the rules of the genre, widening the adventure to reflection on the mechanisms they create and magnify the myth by growing it. Perhaps the script (signed by the directors with Carlo Salsa) puts too much meat on the fire, an arcco-socialist revolutionaries including, but it is not forgotten how the film knows how to intertwine the folklore of an Italy just unified with the all-American myth of the West. Seeing the new engine in history in a woman.

For those who want to find out how the myth of the western contaminates with Italy.

The trailer

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