Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia |
(14.08.1974) |
Action, Crime |
In Sammlung
#254 |
0*
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DVD
108 Min. |
Warren Oates | |
Isela Vega | |
Robert Webber | |
Gig Young | |
Helmut Dantine | |
Emilio Fernández | |
Kris Kristofferson |
Regisseur | Sam Peckinpah
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Thing is, the movie is a masterpiece--raw, shocking, beautiful, and brave--in which Peckinpah confronts his enemies and his own demons. Warren Oates plays a gringo piano-player stuck in Mexico who hears that some powerful men are willing to pay a bounty on a guy he knows. They don't know the guy is already dead, killed in a car accident. It'll be easy to exhume the trophy and collect the money--except that it will cost our seedy hero everything he has and ever wanted.
John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre had always been a key legend for Peckinpah; this film is a subterranean re-imagining of it, with Oates as both the son of Fred C. Dobbs and the carnival-mirror reflection of Peckinpah himself. And Isela Vega's performance as the sainted whore Elita--bruised and worldly one minute, radiant and clear-skinned as a child the next--is an act of grace. --Richard T. Jameson