The western is a genre that has been able to modernize and adapt to new cinema trends to remain appreciated despite the incredible quantity of products of the genre released over time. Today we recommend 5 western films featured on Netflix and absolutely worth seeing if you are a lover of this type of narrative.
After reporting the latest news on David Lynch’s film in development for Netflix, we return to the streaming platform with the red N to sift through its catalog from which to extract 5 titles of the new western genre capable of bringing the genre back to the glories of the past.
The first film we want to talk about is Thar: an Indian work that blends thriller and neo-western, Thar manages to combine the classic themes of revenge and crime with a story full of mysteries and intrigues to be discovered.
Even more peculiar is the case of Concrete Cowboya 2020 film starring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin set in modern-day Philadelphia and which tells the difficult bond between a father and son who find themselves sharing the experience in a community of black cowboys in the city.
Completely different atmospheres those presented in The Ballad of Buster Scruggsan anthology product in six episodes written and directed by the Coen brothers and which presents a series of bizarre stories full of black humor set in the era of the wild west.
Returning to the classical canons, The Harder They Fall it is certainly to be considered one of the most successful westerns of this decade, managing to combine the typical themes of the genre with modern and innovative stylistic choices.
Acclaimed by the public and critics, we cannot then keep it out of this list The Power of the Dog: the work directed by Jane Campion aims to reconstruct the genre from scratch, placing great emphasis on the personality of the protagonist, much more multifaceted and complex than that of the characters that made up the classic genre.
Hoping to have helped you choose the next film to enjoy on the sofa, we ask you which other western works deserve a first or second viewing and we leave you with 5 Netflix original films which, however, have disappointed users.
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