Pursued screened as one of the 14 films in the Sight & Sound Deep Focus programme Ride Lonesome: The Psychological Western, running through May 2016 at BFI Southbank, London.
Often described as the first psychoanalytic western, Raoul Walsh’s 1947 Pursued plays out the traumas of Robert Mitchum’s homecoming Civil War vet as an existential maelstrom of violence, isolation and psychopathy. In this video essay Tag Gallagher offers a psychological reading of one of Hollywood’s weirdest westerns.
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Pursued screened as one of the 14 films in the Sight & Sound Deep Focus programme Ride Lonesome: The Psychological Western, running through May 2016 at BFI Southbank, London.
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