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‘Heads or Tails?’ Review: Delightfully Madcap Euro-Western Serves Up Spaghetti With a Lot of Sauce
John C. Reilly plays Buffalo Bill Cody in 'Heads or Tails?,' a cheerfully deranged genre riff from directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis.
The story is spurred by a real-life incident, when Cody’s men were challenged by a group of cattle-herding Italian butteri to a kind of cowboy duel — handily won by the latter, from whom alpha buttero Augusto Imperioli emerged as a local folk hero. In the film’s version of events, Imperioli becomes Santino (“The Eight Mountains” star Alessandro Borghi), a swaggeringly handsome and dumb-as-rocks stockman who wins the contest — and in turn, a healthy sum for gambling Italian nobleman Rupè (Mirko Artuso), who bet Cody the home team would prevail. A rollicking musical sequence in which he boasts of his own ill-earned reputation is a high point in a film that repeatedly weaves song into its tapestry of tale-spinning — accentuated by the stark, naive strumming and plucking of Vittorio Giampietro’s score — with Cody often editorializing proceedings with his own hearty crooning.
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