Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: an awesome clash between Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson!
Westerns are timeless classics released in theaters between the 1930s and 1960s, including Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Prisoner of the Desert. Films in which we have often found John Wayne, a great regular of the genre. But there are also very high quality westerns unveiled much more recently, like the little-known Seraphim Falls, led by a prestigious duo composed of Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson.
A merciless hunt…
Released directly in our regions on VOD, in 2008, the little nugget Seraphim Falls immerses the viewer three years after the end of the Civil War. There remains one last mission to accomplish for ex-Confederate Army Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson): find and kill former captain Gideon (Pierce Brosnan), with whom he has a common past. Then begins a merciless hunt…
To give birth to this intense twilight western featuring an Irish-Irish face to face between Pierce Brosnan et Liam Neesondirector David Von Ancken has surrounded himself with a team, some of whose members have won several awards. Cinematographer John Toll received two Oscars, for Legends of the Fall and Braveheart, while costume designer Deborah Lynn Scott was praised for her work on Titanic. We've seen worse, right?
Pierce Brosnan says yes for Liam!
And Pierce Brosnan agreed to play in Seraphim Fallsit is only because of the presence in the casting of his compatriot Liam Neeson. As for the latter, if he signed, it is because he was seduced by the theme of forgiveness in the film.
-Filmed in the US states of New Mexico and Oregon, Seraphim Falls certainly does not deserve to have gone under the radar. What if you gave this high-level western a chance, led by two stars adored by the general public?
Tonight on C8 at 9:20 p.m.
Pierce Brosnan will be showing on March 12 in the spy thriller “Black Bag”:
