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Django, The English... The western, the new Eldorado of series

2023-02-09T05:56:37.628Z


With its heroines, its sensitive men, its social utopias, the works of Francesca Comencini, from February 13 on Canal +, and Hugo Blick, in the spring, offer a new look at the conquest of the West.


She was fed up with westerns.

Francesca Comencini, daughter of the great Luigi, director of

L'Incompris

, discovered in the 1970s the films of Sam Peckinpah or Sergio Leone, which according to her expressed the political questions of the time even better than purely societal feature films.

“ 

These works were very important to my training

,” she admits.

They perfectly told of antiheroes, a spirit of rebellion, insubordination, freedom.

The western, perhaps more than others, is a genre that allows us to talk about the present moment.

It offers him a powerful framework

.

»

European vision

When she is offered to confront it, while directing episodes of the series

Gomorra

,

she enthusiastically accepts.

Here she is, director and artistic director of

Djang

o, an original Canal+ and Sky creation in 10 52-minute episodes very freely inspired by Sergio Corbucci's feature film with Franco Nero (1966).

From this period, the cinema, via the European vision offered…

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Source: lefigaro

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