I Fratelli Sisters

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly's new western has bloody violence and suffering. But it also has sweetness

"The Sisters Brothers," a western set in Oregon and California during the febrile heights of the Gold Rush, opens with an arresting scene: a shootout filmed almost entirely in darkness, with the sparks from popping guns its only illumination. The sequence ends with a terrifying barn fire, and the spectral image of a horse running away from the carnage in flames. From the get-go, then, it's obvious that "The Sisters Brothers" will subvert typical western spectacle even as it indulges it. A schematically familiar but gently funny picaresque reminiscent of "True Grit" and other mission-driven adventures, this adaptation of Patrick deWitt's novel doesn't necessarily break new ground. [...]

di Ann Hornaday, articolo completo (4054 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Washington Post 28 settembre 2019