Western
Italian (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
1966 · Directed by Sergio Leone · 161 min
Three men in the American Civil War each know a different piece of the secret to a buried fortune in Confederate gold. They cheat, trade and betray one another across a landscape of battles and prison camps, in a Western that is at once grim, funny and operatic.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of the spaghetti Western and a turning point in how Westerns looked, sounded and paced themselves. It made the genre's mythology feel stylised, ironic and distinctly European.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film built like an opera: faces, silence and music carry the drama, and dialogue matters less.
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