REQUIESCANT

With a superb soundtrack by Riz Ortolani (CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST), REQUIESCANT—Latin for “rest in peace”—ranks among the finest Spaghetti Westerns from Italy. Lou Castel (FISTS IN THE POCKET) plays a young man raised to be a pacifist by a travelling preacher after Confederates massacred his family. But when his stepsister runs away, the pursuit reveals Lou's talent as a sharp-shooter. And a bloody, unexpected confrontation with his past. Alex Cox named it the “one film to prove that the Italian Western was not solely Sergio Leone’s.”