Head or Tails? (2025)

[Cremildo]

Cineuropa: There are a few brief plot details floating around, but I’d love if you could share, in your own words, the story of Heads or Tails?, and delve into some of its themes.
Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis: After our previous film, The Tale of King Crab, we wanted to do a full-on western film. A real western, like they used to shoot in the old days: gritty, dirty and savage. But almost all these films had America as a backdrop, while in the beginning of our film, the myth of the American cowboy has already been cemented by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and his tour in Italy. So that’s our setting: Italy, 1891. It’s an Italian post-modern western, set in Italy: a ballad, a love story. Two lovers, wild at heart, fuelled by burning love in search of freedom, in stark contrast with the brutal violence of post-unification Italy. It’s a manhunt-escape-western – Bonnie and Clyde on a real mustang-kind of movie – triggered by a murder and a huge misunderstanding. +