I'm as old as shit, but I still feel good,” says jovial 82-year-old Walter Hill when he sits down with Teasers on the balmy patio of the Ausonia Hungaria Hotel on Venice's Lido during the 2022 film festival. He's in town to bow his latest film, a back-to-basics return to the genre Hill maintains all his films essentially are with western Dead For A Dollar.
Written and directed by creator, it follows bounty hunter Max Borlund (Christoph Waltz) in 1897 New Mexico, on the hunt for Rachel Brosnahan) held hostage by an African-American army deserter (Brandon Scott). During his search, Borlund reunites with his nemesis (Willem Dafoe), encounters a local Mexican kingpin (Benjamin Bratt) and uncovers a story of abuse and trauma. There are gun battles, bullwhip fights, dames carrying derringers in their sudsy baths and golden-hour vistas of an America lost to the pages of history.
