Scorsese is back with a huge and frightening colossal (starting from the length, 3 hours and 26 minutes) but it deserves to be seen. Killers of the Flower Moon, a western epic filmed on the Italian-American mafia, went out to the cinema in 2023, then passed for Prime Video, for Sky and Apple TV. On March 2, 2026 it is on Rai Movie. He is directed by Scorsese, of course, and screened by Scorsese himself with Eric Roth on the basis of the book of the same name of 2017, a essay written by David Grann on facts really happened.
This is the sixth collaboration between the director and DiCaprio and the tenth between the director and De Niro, and is produced by Apple Studios, Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions and Appian Way Productions.
Killers of the Flower Moon, la trama
Ernst returns from the war and decides to go to Uncle Bill Hale’s house, where his brother, Byron is also located. This house is located in the territory of the tribe of natives of America of the Osages, who have become very rich thanks to the deposits of oil, and now live with white thirsty of money, who do all to rob them of their wealth in one way or another.
Bill Hale, however, does not deal with oil but cattle, and is very loved and respected by the community. When Ernst, who wants to do everything for pleasure to his uncle, approaches the fascinating Mollie, who has a large family and pure blood, so it is very rich, the Hale machine is set in motion, overwhelming everything to his passage.
Killers of the Flower Moon, la recensione
Martin Scorsese, of our complaints about long films, is inflated. Martin Scorsese wants to tell a story of invasion, abuse, racism, overwhelmed white man and wants to do it with his times and his ways, which are 1) gangster movies with De Niro 2) all. Killers of the Flower Moon is an impressive work of maximism and collage, which gives us images to the cinematographer, scenes of dances and songs and indigenous rites, even static writings from silent films, without betraying the last Scorsese, instead bringing it up.
Also in tones, ranging from tragic to iroonic, from contemptuous to bitter. A deep reflection on the nuances of evil, from the one wanted and sought to the trivial and bovine, from the crime to silence. An oily evil like oil, which lives in the veins of white man and is part of its nature, still today, grotesque in its impunity. We know these things, and yet we ignore them. We know them, and we pretend we don’t. That’s bad too.
You don’t run away, Killers of the Flower Moon fills your eyes and stays there for hours, maybe days. In 2023 be careful for 3 hours and a half in a row is almost impossible. Scorsese asks for the miracle, unreasonable. The story is first. In return, we receive a huge, grandiose film, a magnetic and terrible Lily Gladstone, both in the irony and hardness and, with a last touch of irony but also gravitas, Scorsese himself who tells us the final.
Il cast
Leonardo DiCaprio is Ernest Burkhart, a former soldier who goes to the rich uncle to seek luck.
Robert De Niro is William Hale, the beloved uncle who hides more than one shadow. Lily Gladstone is Mollie Burkhart, a female protagonist of the film, a native of purebred America decided to arrive at the truth. Jesse Plemons is Thomas Bruce White Sr., detective of the newborn FBI who is sent to investigate. In the cast also Brendan Fraser (W. S. Hamilton), Solothurn Cardinal (Lizzie Q), Cara Jade Myers (Anna Brown), JaNae Collins (Reta), Jillian Dion (Minnie) and William Belleau (Henry Roan).
Killers of the Flower Moon in streaming
The film is streaming on RaiPlay as well as renting or buying on Amazon Video, Rakuten TV, Timvision, Apple TV Store.
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