BANDIDAS (2006) Euro-western with Penelope & Salma
2348DVD
A
Sexy, European-Shot Western with Penelope Cruz & Salma Hayek
director:
Joachim Roenning & Espen Sandberg with Luc Besson
starring: Salma Hayek ·
Penelope
Cruz ·
Dwight
Yoakam ·
Sam
Shepard
In
1848, a New York banker wants to construct a railroad across Mexico. The
NY tycoon buys up small banks around Durango and then evicts farmers on
the proposed rail line. The henchman is murderous Tyler Jackson who soon
makes enemies of two women, Marķa (a tough but uneducated daughter
of a murdered farmer), and Sara (the European-educated daughter of a community
bank owner who was killed in the takeover). Marķa and Sara band
together to challenge Jackson and his men by becoming bank robbers, veritable
sexy Robin Hoods of the West.
Females
were seldom the central characters in a Spaghetti Western. Raquel Welch
did it in the British-made HANNIE
CAULDER. Sex symbols Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale gave
it a whirl in Christian-Jaque's LEGEND
OF FRENCHIE KING. And while Tony Anthony was clearly the star
ofBLINDMAN,
it was - in fact - the story of 50 prostitutes (led by starlets Lucretia
Love, Isabella Savona and Magda Konopka) defending themselves enroute
to a house of ill repute.
French producer Luc Besson wrote the script for this new interpretation
of Females-in-the-West and he ghost-directed much of the action, around
the same time he was making his femme version of Indiana Jones, THE
EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC.
A French/Spanish
Film; widescreen (16:9) or fullscreen options, fully uncut (92 minutes)
encoded for REGION ONE NTSC, playable on any American machine; in English
or Spanish language with removable English or Spanish subtitles. Extras
include audio commentary track by Hayek and Cruz plus a Making Of featurette.
Violence/Nudity/Sexual
Material:
Viewer discretion is advised.
