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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

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Venice International Film Festival

At the heart of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford lies an obsessive, destructive relationship between two disparate yet oddly similar men. One will eventually kill the other. Yet this fascinating relationship gets smothered in pointlessly long takes, repetitive scenes, grim Western landscapes and mumbled, heavily accented dialogue.

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