The French have a romance with anachronism and a passion for paradox, blending old with new, mixing one film genre with another. This remarkable melange interweaves Nixon politics with the genocidal, land-grabbing expansionism of the Old West. Mastroianni is George Armstrong Custer--the
vain, posturing martinet who led his troops to massacre at the hands, arrows, and scalping knives of the beleaguered Indians of Sitting Bull (here played by Cuny). Deneuve is the archetype modest, reserved frontier belle who literally picks Mastroianni up and tosses him into the sack. Piccoli is
an effefiminate Buffalo Bill who, ever the showman, performs at a Parisian nightclub. To...
Released:
1974
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins