Tonight on TV: This little-known western is an authentic gem that rivals the best of Clint Eastwood

Actor Ed Harris’ second play after Pollock, the feature film Appaloosa, which aired tonight on Arte, is a great western that you must (re)discover! The work, which was released in cinemas in 2008, takes the audience to the United States of the 19th century. Story ? Virgil Cole, accompanied by his deputy Everett Hitch, who has been appointed as the new marshal of a town led by a terrorizing ranch owner…

Appaloosa, the detective novel by Robert B. Adapted from Parker’s novel of the same name, it is Ed Harris’ sublime declaration of love for the Western. Even here we dare to say it: his film is close to perfection.

Very classic, yet elegant and exciting, with great atmosphere and no humor, this ode to honor and friendship quickly takes on the look of a classic. The highlight is the summit meeting between Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen.

The genesis of Appaloosa, an old-fashioned western made modestly but with a lot of heart, is quite unusual. The idea came to Ed Harris in 2005 while riding with his family. The actor-director took Robert B. Parker’s novel. click.

“I was immediately drawn to the relationship between Cole and Hitch”– says Ed Harris. “From the first chapters I loved the dialogues and was passionate about their friendship. These are two tough guys who have been together for more than twelve years and know each other by heart. They don’t need to talk much. To explain themselves, they understand each other half, instinctively. They are good with each other and immensely respectful They beat each other up. And then when they’re together, these two have a great sense of humor.”

Appaloosa marks Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen’s second collaboration, three years after David Cronenberg’s A Tale of Violence. impermissible union.

Tonight at Arte at 20:55.

Trailer for “History of Violence”, the first collaboration between Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen: