Hi-Lo Country | Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson

Hi-Lo Country | Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson | Flawed vision of High Plains life

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	Hi-Lo Country Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson Polygram USA Video, 1999 average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This is a brilliant movie.

This movie stands shoulder to shoulder with "Giant" and "The Last Picture Show." Woody Harrelson has a power that matches any male performance, anytime, anywhere. This is twentieth-century Texas and New Mexico, as anyone who is familiar with that region will know. The dialogue is at all times poetic and haunting, particularly the barroom scene where "Big Boy" speaks with Greek eloquence about the "bottom" possessed by a Bucephalas-like horse named "Old Sorrel."

It is inexplicable why this movie is not being spoken of as a great classic.

David W. Lee leelawok@ionet.net

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Flawed vision of High Plains life

What starts out as a structured narrative disappointingly winds up as a messy fragmented sequence of episodic and not 'logically' connected vignettes; to wit, starts out turgid, ends up flaccid. Well and lushly photographed with a concentration on Peter Head-influenced close-ups in raking light; so overall, including the vistas of an empty open land, it is imagistically succesfull. The leads do their best (alas) but the directorial reins should have been a lot tighter. The credits give New Mexico as the locale but the towns scenes where all shot in Prichett, Colorado -- what gives?

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