Two Mules for Sister Sara. 1970. Directed by Don Siegel

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Two Mules for Sister Sara. 1970. Directed by Don Siegel. Courtesy Universal Pictures.

Two Mules for Sister Sara. 1970. USA/Mexico. Directed by Don Siegel. Screenplay by Budd Boetticher, Albert Maltz. With Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin. 4K DCP. 114 min.

Don Siegel and Budd Boetticher were two of the greatest storytellers the movies ever produced, their films as taut as a banjo string. In Two Mules for Sister Sara, cowritten with the sardonic Albert Maltz (Mildred Pierce, The Beguiled) and uniting Siegel with Clint Eastwood for the first time (Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me), what might have been the hoary (whory?!) tale of a nun (Shirley MacLaine) and a mercenary (Eastwood) meeting cute on the lawless frontier instead becomes a nuanced study of violent desperation and spiritual aspiration, the carnal and the cleansed, against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution. Gabriel Figueroa’s epic cinematography and Ennio Morricone’s troubadour music, with its touches of corrido and banda, masterfully underscore the film’s soaring heights and sordid depths.

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