This article is from Le Figaro Magazine
Thierry Frémaux did well not to select Martin Scorsese's film in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival (at the latter's request): it would have deprived France and a woman of a Palme d'Or. Killers of the Flower Moon (in theaters October 18) is visual proof that old age is not a shipwreck but a maturation. The director of Taxi Driver is here at the peak of his art, his arts: telling, directing, directing.
What is it? A true story. In the 1920s, the Osage Indians, deported a few decades earlier to a remote corner of Oklahoma, suddenly became the richest people in the world per capita. Their soil is full of oil! From one day to the next, they were also the object of great solicitude (the other word for covetousness) on the part of whites who saw them as easy prey.
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Bill Hale (Robert De Niro) in the film, which is adapted from David Grann's fictional tale, The American Note
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