“The first time I visited the Navajo lands I was with Viggo Mortensen,” says Lech Majewski, director of Valley of the gods. “While traveling in this remote part of the western United States we had found a very strange bar. Inside were a dozen Navajos, who turned into human sculptures: they didn’t move an inch. In this scene I recreated that bar, which no longer exists “.
In the film, writer John Ecas, during a marital crisis, seeks inspiration for his new novel at Monument Valley’s Navajo tribal park. This place, sacred to the natives, is also the object of the aims of the wealthy Wes Tauros (played by John Malkovich), who wants to exploit it for the extraction of uranium.
Lech Majewski is a Polish director, writer and painter. The latest feature films he directed are Onirica-Field of dogs (2014) e The colors of passion (2011).
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