Cannes, Heads or tails? by Rigo de Righi and Zoppis in Un Certain Regard

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April 10, 2025

"Testa o croce?" (Heads or Tails) by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis will be presented in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. The cast of the film includes Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alessandro Borghi and John C. Reilly, Peter Lanzani, Mirko Artuso, Gabriele Silli, with the participation of Gianni Garko. At the beginning of the 20th century, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show arrived in Rome to sell the myth of the frontier to Italians, with blank rifles and cowboy shows. Here, in the setting of a taming competition that has become a legend between Italian cowboys and cowboys, Rosa, the young wife of the local squire, falls in love with Santino, the cowboy who wins the challenge.

Following the murder of her husband, Rosa and Santino flee together, but justice, as always, is sold to the highest bidder and a large bounty is placed on Santino's head. With Buffalo Bill on their trail, Rosa dreams of America, the real one, not the one of advertising posters with bison, but her dream will have to deal with reality. Because, as in any self-respecting western ballad, fate flips the coin. And often, the truth remains buried underground. Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis (born in 1986) are two Italian-American directors. Their collaboration began with the short documentary "Black Beast" and the award-winning documentary "Il Solengo". Their first fiction feature film, "King Crab" premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes 2021. Their work focuses on tales and legends of the peasant tradition and on the incomplete and imperfect mechanism of the oral tradition that ends up giving rise to new stories.