Lo que no se perdona
Lo que no se perdona
Director:
John HustonGuión:
Ben MaddowCámara:
Franz PlanerMúsica:
Dimitri TiomkinReparto:
Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford, Lillian Gish, Albert Salmi, Joseph Wiseman, June Walker, Kipp Hamilton (más)Sinopsis(1)
La viuda Mathilda Zachary vive en un aislado rancho con sus tres hijos y su hija Rachel. Un vagabundo, a quien todos toman por loco, desde hace años relata la historia de que Rachel no es hija biológica de Mathilda sino que se trata de una india kiowa arrebatada a su tribu siendo niña. La familia Zachary se ve atrapada en una trágica situación cuando los kiowa se presentan en el rancho dispuestos a llevarse a Rachel quien, al descubrir su verdadero origen, comprende la razón del rechazo de los vecinos de la región. (Divisa Home Video)
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Western from the old school with a clearly defined romantic line, in a classic attire of good and evil, this time enriched by a surprising but more emphatic motif of racism. The first half is annoyingly monotonous, while the second is strongly above average in its seriousness. And I definitely cannot forget the theatrically semi-pathetic, but terribly adorable Audrey among the actors. In the end, it is definitely not a groundbreaking piece in any respect or genre, but rather a nostalgic comfort, undermined by sluggishness, excessive literalness, and above all, overstated pathos in dialogues.
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Audrey Hepburn's short career is one of those extremely overrated ones. So I decided to take a closer look. This Belgian-born "miracle" of the 50s and 60s left an indelible mark in several simple genre films and in several controversial adaptations. And like the vast majority of Hollywood actors, at some point, she found herself needing to try a western as well. Which is especially spicy for European actors, for whom nothing is more unnatural. So is there anything memorable about The Unforgiven? Of course not. It is completely routine, where perhaps the only thing that raises eyebrows is the utterly pointless casting of Hepburn and (almost 70-year-old) Lilian Gish. A confusing, uninteresting, boring encounter with a rank-and-file western. A waste of time.
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Considering that this film was made at a time when the US was experiencing one of the many waves of racial intolerance, the words "ordinary and boring" are the last that come to mind. On the other hand, all of the filmmakers should be commended for the way they have managed to combine the historical western setting with purely contemporary issues. Yes, the film would have benefited from a faster pace and all that, but it's the idea, the warningly raised index finger that John Huston used to say over the years: "Look, people have treated each other like this a few times before, and it hasn't done them any good." The actors probably don't need any commentary (Burt Lancaster's determined tough guy, and Audrey H., the most beautiful of all and acting the most natural), the storm search and the ending are legendary scenes for me, and I loved Tiomkin's classic music playing with the song “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah".
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