Cinema Italian Style: Heads or Tails? (Testa o croce?)
November 16, 2025
John C. Reilly plays a troubadour-style Buffalo Bill Cody in this cheerfully deranged genre riff from The Tale of King Crab directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis.
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Sunday, November 16, 2025
At the dawn of the 20th century, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show rolls into Italy, peddling the myth of the American frontier and sparking the imagination of Rosa, a young woman trapped in a stifling marriage to a powerful and violent landowner. When a rodeo between American cowboys and Italian butteri ends in tragedy, Rosa flees with Santino, the daring local rider who bested the Americans. But in a world where justice is sold to the highest bidder, Buffalo Bill and others join the hunt for the bounty on Santino’s head. Rosa’s dream of freedom quickly collides with the weight of reality—and like in every good Western ballad, fate flips a coin.
- Original Language Title: Testa o croce?
- Director: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
- Principal Cast: John C. Reilly, Alessandro Borghi, Nadia Tereszkiewicz
- Country: Italy
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 116 min.
- Producer: Tommaso Bertani, Alex C. Lo, Paolo Del Brocco
- Screenplay: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis, Carlo Salsa
- Cinematographers: Simone D'Arcangelo
- Editors: Andrés Pepe Estrada, Jacopo Ramella Pajrin
- Music: Vittorio Giampietro
- Filmography: The Tale of King Crab (2021), Il Solengo (2015)
- Language: Italian
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- US Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn