Once Upon a Time in America

Director: Sergio Leone

2017 / 227min / DCP

For his final and most grandiose epic, Leone, teaming with an in-his-prime Robert De Niro, left behind the Western to take on another quintessentially American genre, the gangster picture, producing a singularly haunted and haunting, epoch-hopping tale—invoking, at various points, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Proust—that depicts the lives and crimes of a clique of tough Jews from the squalid streets of pre-Prohibition Lower East Side, viewed at various times as skinny punk kids, as criminal kingpins, and as tired, rueful old men.

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century

Part of Voyage Chromatique: Ugo Bienvenu