California

Michele Lupo does a creditable job of directing CALIFORNIA. Photography is far superior to what you normally see in a spaghetti western, and the acting generally better, too. Gemma posts one of his finer career performances and the script is reasonably logical, so I did enjoy it.

The negatives: overlong by about 15 mins, far too much boxing where shooting would have been expected, and a 1970s soundtrack in a movie about people who lived about 100 years earlier.

Interesting revisionist angle on the revengefulness of Union in relation to the Confederacy. and touches of a road movie as Gemma and Miguel Bosé travel long distances together, on foot and on horseback.