The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Directed by

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Genre

drama film, Western film, anthology film, black comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 13m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 4,458 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film presents six separate stories set in the American frontier after the Civil War. Each vignette follows different characters facing violence, fate, and the harsh realities of the Old West.

slow-burnbleakdarkly comicunsettlingvisually lushanthologyquietmelancholic

What happens

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (titled on-screen as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Other Tales of the American Frontier) is a 2018 American Western black comedy anthology film written, directed, produced, and edited by the Coen brothers. It stars Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, James Franco, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Heck, Grainger Hines, Zoe Kazan, Harry Melling, Liam Neeson, Jonjo O'Neill, Chelcie Ross, Saul Rubinek, and Tom Waits. It consists of six vignettes set in the post-Civil War American frontier. The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2018, where it won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay. After a limited theatrical run beginning on November 9, 2018, it was released on Netflix on November 16. The National Board of Review named it one of its top ten films of 2018. The film earned three nominations at the 91st Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Song ("When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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