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Film · 1970 · Revisionist western
Little Big Man
Directed by Arthur Penn
1970
★ 4.2 editorial score
Made during Vietnam and aimed straight at it: a 121-year-old man narrates his life across the frontier, and Arthur Penn makes the cavalry the villains for once.
“Arthur Penn's "Little Big Man" is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn...It is the very folksiness of Penn's film that makes it, finally, such a perceptive and important statement about Indians, the West, and the American dream. There's no stridency, no preaching, no deep-voiced narrators making sure we got the point of the last massacre.”
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