Redford Remembered

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Credits

Country :

USA

Year :

1969

Director :

George Roy Hill

Version :

vostFR

Duration :

113 minutes

Format :

digital

Actors :

Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

Awards :

4 wins including Best Screenplay & Best Cinematography, Oscars 1970

synopsis

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid are partners in all kinds of robberies. Mischievous outlaws, they roam early 1900s America, constantly thumbing their noses at the authorities…

Visuel : Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Peu importe que le vrai Butch Cassidy et son acolyte aient été de douteux personnages. Le film apporte sa joyeuse contribution aux mythes fondateurs américains, y insuffle la légèreté de la comédie, le rythme trépidant des films d’action. Un romantisme solaire éclaire le récit, y compris à l’heure tragique de sa conclusion. Et la savoureuse autodérision de ce western tardif lui donne, en prime, un petit gout de spaghetti.

Télérama

Butch Cassidy was thoroughly modern, a star-making vehicle for Newman and Redford that reflected a need for the genre to turn the page and that feels as much of its time as it does authentic to Wyoming in the late 1890s. With Katharine Ross at the center of a love triangle between friends, the film attempted to bring Jules and Jim to the American mainstream, taking a lesson from the French new wave on how to revivify old Hollywood craft.

The Guardian