For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
Eric Guirado, director of The Grocer’s Son (Le Fils de l’épicier, 2007), will present Sergio Leone’s cult Western For a Few Dollars More, at the Cinéma Le Zola (in Villeurbanne).
When the film was released in September 1966, “spaghetti Westerns” (Leone’s hated the term) were all the rage. Some people even thought Clint Eastwood, the star of A Fistful of Dollars (which came out the year before), was an Italian actor made to look like an American.
After the film’s huge success, Eastwood became as famous as Leone, who by then had stopped using the name of Bob Robertson as director of his films. Leone used the money he made to build bigger sets (all the outside scenes were shot in Almeria, in Spain), improve his scripts and make characters more complex.
Another actor besides Eastwood was put in santiag Texan boots and smoked cigarillos -- Gian Maria Volontè, a major star of Italian political and cerebral films, notably by Francesco Rosi. In For a Few Dollars More, he brilliantly plays a wild and entertaining part.
The film is being screened in restored version as a pre-premiere, before its general re-release on 4 November.
Wednesday 14 October (20:30) at the Cinéma Le Zola
Friday 16 October (20:00) at the Pathé Bellecour
Saturday 17 October (14:30) at the Ciné Meyzieu
Sunday 18 October (10:30) at the Pathé Bellecour
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