Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan face off in a little-known western!
The golden age of westerns spanned between the 1930s and the 1960s with classics like Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Prisoner of the Desert, to name a few. to name just three out of dozens and dozens.
But there are also very good, more contemporary films of the genre. Seraphim Falls, led by a prestigious duo composed of Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, is one of them. And good news: you can discover this little-known work this evening!
Released directly on VOD with us in 2008, the little nugget Seraphim Falls immerses the viewer three years after the end of the Civil War. There remains one last mission to accomplish for ex-Confederate Army Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson): find and kill former Captain Gideon (Pierce Brosnan).
These two men have a common past and faced each other during the terrible battle of Seraphim Falls. Then begins a merciless hunt…
For this intense twilight western of which we savor without depriving ourselves of the excellent face to face between Liam Neeson And Pierce Brosnandirector David Von Ancken has surrounded himself with a team, some of whose members have won several awards.
Cinematographer John Toll received two Oscars, for Legends of the Fall and Braveheart, while costume designer Deborah Lynn Scott was rewarded for Titanic.
Filmed in New Mexico and Oregon, Seraphim Falls certainly does not deserve to have gone under the radar. What if you gave this high-quality western led by two stars adored by the general public a chance?
Tonight on C8 at 9:19 p.m.
Liam Neeson recently starred in the thriller “Retribution”: