1994 · drama · western · romance
Legends of the Fall
Directed by Edward Zwick2h 13m1994
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
Our read: Legends of the Fall (1994) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · western · romance entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / western, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- sombre
- extreme
- tender
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