Rai Cinema Celebrates ‘Heads or Tails?’ at Cannes and Readies for More Hits: ‘Cinema Without Audience Doesn’t Exist’

Rai Cinema Celebrates ‘Heads or Tails?’ at Cannes and Readies for More Hits: ‘Cinema Without Audience Doesn’t Exist’

Rai Cinema Celebrates Surreal Western ‘Heads or Tails’ at Cannes, Directed by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, and Readies for More Hits

Review: Heads or Tails?

22/05/2025 - CANNES 2025: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppi’s new film is an entertaining and insolent anti-western about the arrival of Buffalo Bill’s show in Italy and the flight of two lovers on the run

Cannes Review: Heads or Tails is an Ethereal, Lived-In Western

I could name few living filmmakers better equipped for the Western than Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. The duo behind The Tale of King Crab––a film I revere like a sacred relic––have created their own niche in contemporary Italian magical realism, somewhere adjacent to Alice Rohrwacher and Pietro Marcello while very much its own thing. Their latest is called Heads or Tails and it’s another of the filmmakers’ ethereal campfire stories. …

Mateo Zoppis & Alessio Rigo de Righi's "Heads or Tails?" - Cannes '25 Review

The directors behind the mythic "The Tale of King Crab" question historical narratives in this fun flick with John C. Reilly as Buffalo Bill. The post Cannes 2025 Review: History is Left Up to Chance in Mateo Zoppis and Alessio Rigo de Righi’s Playful and Poignant “Heads or Tails?” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.