The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968): Picturehouse Cinemas, across London
This film (showing across Picturehouse Cinemas in London and elsewhere) is part of the Ennio Morricone season.
Picturehouse Cinemas introduction to the Morricone season:
Ennio Morricone is il maestro of the movies. As bravura as he was prolific (more than 400 scores for film and TV over six decades), the late Italian composer’s work enlivened film music with insidious earworms, innovative instrumentation (think whip cracks and whistling) and an unerring gift to speak directly to the emotions. This Picturehouse Re-Discover season showcases some of his masterpieces and unsung gems, celebrating perhaps the most original, distinctive voice in film music.
Time Out review:
Growing in stature as the years pass, the bleak majesty of Sergio
Corbucci’s dark, complex meditation on the human cost of progress
threatens to outstrip the bleached, hallucinatory, hyper-violent
‘Django’ as his crowning achievement. Set in Utah during the Great
Blizzard of 1899, it follows the mute Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a
hired gun with a particular interest in the state-sanctioned bounty
hunters – exemplified by Klaus Kinski’s mannered, controlled, entirely
deadly Loco – who are clearing the land of anyone who doesn’t have their
finger in the pie. Though overflowing with theological subtext and
social indignance, it’s an uncommonly reserved film by spaghetti western
(and Kinski) standards, but when that silence is broken, the noise and
fury are truly something to behold.
Adam Lee Davies
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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