This is one of the 10 Westerns You Must See in Your Lifetime: Released 33 years ago, it’s a must-see of the genre.

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AlloCiné’s editors have made this film a classic in its genre, to the point of listing it as one of the 10 Westerns you’ll ever see. With an average rating of 4.3 out of 5 from over 36,000 votes, it’s clear that this feature film is also almost unanimously loved by AlloCiné viewers. And he’s played by Kevin Costner.

Kevin Costner and the Western

Costner loves the American West. He is also developing a series of films called “Horizon: An American Saga”, the first part of which will be presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024. This “Chapter 1” will be released in theaters on June 28 in the United States, and the second part is announced on August 16. At the moment, no French date is known, but getting it at the Cannes Film Festival might help. If success is achieved, Costner has two additional aspects in mind.

During his career, he starred in the westerns Silverado (1985), Wyatt Earp (1994), Open Range (which he also directed in 2003), the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012) and of course the hit series Yellowstone, which he does not need. Introduction. First of all, Costner created another western, “Dances with Wolves,” that haunts us today.

What is it about?

Dances with Wolves begins during the Civil War. We follow John Dunbar, a soldier destined for death who accidentally commits a military exploit. Wounded, he is sent to scout the Dakota plains, where he meets the Sioux people and befriends this population, about whom he knows nothing.

In the extended version of 3h56, as well as the “normal” version of 3h01, Dances with Wolves is a genre must-see. It probably represents Indian culture and its representatives like never before. The hero is, of course, white, but we can’t deny the film’s deeply humanistic and anti-colonialist desire.

The staging eschews the spectacular, instead exploring the intimacy of the characters and showing the complexity of a world threatened and on the brink of destruction. Keep in mind that this is Costner’s directorial debut, and it will go on to win 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (Michael Blake’s adaptation of Michael Blake) and Best Cinematography (Dean Semler’s The Sublime Nature).