Venice: ‘Old Henry’ Director on Creating His “Micro-Western” With Tim Blake Nelson

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Ahead of the film's world premiere on the Lido, Potsy Ponciroli discusses Western conspiracy theories, realistic gunfights and shooting in the same tiny house that first inspired him to write the story.

the show, but once I started doing this I really did a deep dive into the old Westerns, like, which is fantastic. But this started when we were actually scouting for different projects and came across this house, about 40 minutes outside of Nashville. It’s this little house, which sits down this hill and I just started thinking, “I wouldn’t want to live there, because it’s quiet and scary and dark.

We were really mindful about wanting it to be realistic — a lot of shootouts in films are just chaos, with endless bullets. But we wanted to be mindful about how many bullets were in a gun and how much power comes from one pull, because one pull is deadly. Each shot we wanted to keep track of.We only actually had an hour and 45 minutes to shoot the whole thing. I’d only written it two days before because we were supposed to end up in a creek, but we tested the water and it had E.

 

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