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Winchester ’73
A rifle goes from hand to hand, which sets the architecture of the film: a line as a circle and as a sequence of transitions. These are not at all smooth or gentle, but rather abrupt, deadly, violent, carried out with an unprecedented rigour and relentlessness, both in terms of the events in the images and the action of the images themselves. Anthony Mann defines and exposes his characters through the handling of the Winchester; through shooting. The circular form of the episodes allowed him to encompass an entire epoch. No other western can come close to Winchester ‘73 in terms of the efficiency of its structure. Its director is not telling a western, but a sum, an anthology in which nothing is missing, from attack to duel. And everything is short, striking, concentrated in form, with the art of ellipses, in striking images that are like shots. (H.T.)
Photo: Swedish Film Institute