An old-school Western, the kind that they just don't make anymore, that is more about character and principles than action or gunfights. Warren Beaty does a good job of playing a businessman who isn't nearly as smart as he thinks, and that timeless beauty, Julie Christie, is your standard "hooker with a heart of gold" archetype, but also a woman who knows more about business than the naive man she happens to work for. It's really hard to believe that this was directed by Robert Altman, that great master of long takes and even longer ensemble cast movies (Nashville, Short Cuts, Gosford Part, etc). The cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond is subtle yet atmospheric, with low lighting and darkness dominating every frame of this rather sad and tragic story set in the cold and snowy mountains of the frontier. Definitely one of the better movies of the Wild West period where the heroes are doomed to suffer because they just can not compete with corporate criminals, no matter how much they try to resist.
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