(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marino fearful- Photos are published courtesy of the Venice Biennale)

Presented in competition at the 75th Venice Film Festival in Venice, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is the latest effort of the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, soon be available on Netflix.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a unique anthology series divided into six parts, the Western setting, that gives a nod also to the same western sixties and, in particular, our spaghetti western. And so, immediately after the opening credits, see the pages of a book - with a catchy country tune in the background - open from time to time on a different chapter, who, your back, There is introduced by an illustration retro flavor. And it is at this point that the real show begins.

With their usual tone light-hearted and fun, the two brothers of St. Louis Park opt for a real start in fourth, giving the viewer - just get started - the bizarre and hilarious story of the outlawed Buster Scruggs, just, carefree cowboy who does not hesitate to pierce the fourth wall to communicate directly with the public and, with his extraordinary gifts from gunslinger, He manages to slay anyone hindrance their tranquility, to do almost Tarantino. A starting fulminant, therefore, for work that, Despite its long total duration, He never loses bite, while changing gradually the tones, until you get even a melancholic and contemplative portrait of the Old West, who, your back, in just over two hours it describes so detailed and so accurate in all its reality - and, mostly, through loads of affection looks - which rarely happened in the past. The end result is a fun product, dynamic and bizarre, but also, when needed, hard, moving and emotional, can transmit in only one hundred and thirty minutes strong emotions.

Only six of the chapters The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. and yet, Also at the end of the vision, you would still have gone on for hours. A new challenge, this, for filmmakers, which they are not directed anything since 2014, after presenting the beautiful in Cannes About Davis. A new challenge, But, It was won with success and that, as usual for their film, It goes to show once again how the same have fun playing with the medium of film. A sign that the Seventh Art has (also) the ability to never grow old.

marina fears