Pour une Poignée de Dollars en Ciné-Concert

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone's masterpiece returns to the bill at Le Grand Rex in a cine-concert version to mark the 60th anniversary of its release in France. In March 1966, the audience in the Grand Rex auditorium watched Pour une poignée de dollars without knowing that they were witnessing the writing of a new page in film history. Then almost unknown to the general public, the young Italian director Sergio Leone upended the codes of the Hollywood western by imposing a radical style: scorching close-ups, suspended silences, psychological violence and nameless heroes. With Clint Eastwood, a novice actor who had come from television, he invented the modern anti-hero. Loosely inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, the film became, despite a derisory budget, a worldwide triumph and gave birth to a genre in its own right: the spaghetti western. This masterpiece of the seventh art owes its legend also to its score. Ennio Morricone, Leone's childhood friend and a then-novice composer, wrote a score from elsewhere: haunting whistling, electric guitars, bells and choirs take the place of dialogue, telling the story as much as the images do. A sonic revolution that would elevate the maestro to the status of a legend of cinema.

On Friday 9 April 2027, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the film's release in France, uGo&Play and Le Grand Rex bring these two inseparable works together for one exceptional cine-concert with more than 50 artists on stage! For the first time in France, the film will be screened in full (in English, with French subtitles), accompanied by the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, which will perform Ennio Morricone's original score live, in perfect synchronisation with the images. Don't miss this event, which will bring together all fans of westerns and lovers of film music in the most beautiful cinema in the world!