My final film was a treat - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. That most modish of things, a Netflix production, this is a set of six vignettes on themes of the old West, written and directed by the Coen brothers. It is by turns funny (Buster Scruggs himself is a great creation - a smiling, homicidal singing cowboy), stunning to look at, and almost painfully poignant.
The six segments are linked only by their geography and classic Western tropes. There is no commonality of cast or plot and that might, I suppose, give a somewhat fractured feel but overall this is a classy piece of film-making. 8/10.
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