My name is nobody on France 3: one of the most beautiful westerns ever made (review)
The cult film starring Henry Fonda and Terence Hill returns this Monday evening on television.
My name is nobodyof Tonino Valeriifollows Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda)legend of the West, wishing to put an end to his career as a gunslinger and considering embarking for Europe. But a young admirer, claiming to be called Nobody (Terence Hill), don’t hear it that way. He wants to bring Beauregard into history by leading him to fight the Wild Horde.
While the prestigious Sergio Leone is credited with the screenplay, the western master actually had the original idea for the story, but it was written by Fulvio Morsella, Leone’s brother-in-law, and Ernesto Gastaldi. In 2016, on the death of the director Tonino Valeriiwe paid homage to the latter while recalling to what extent My Name is Nobody changed the history of the western. A classic not to be missed, this Monday evening on France 3 (and the next day in streaming on France.TV).
“My Name is Nobody, therefore, is one of the most beautiful westerns ever made. We know that Leone has long claimed authorship of the film (for which he had the idea and which he had produced), but today, no one doubts it anymore: this swan song, this tribute at once joyful, sad and loving to the western is indeed the work of Valerii (Leone would have only directed the urinal scene). Nobody is the story of a friendship strange, that between an old worn-out Western hero and a young lone wolf. old age and the end of an era, and behind the popular hit, lies an ironic and moving postscript to the genre, a farewell to the western in general, thanks to the magnificent presence of Fonda, and a marvelous compilation of the myths of the West and those of old Europe (we can see the film as a rereading of the Odyssey).”
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