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Fri 08 Aug 2007Seraphim FallsIt is hard not to feel a little surge of pity, as if for a frail creature set loose in the snow, whenever some well-meaning distributor releases a new western.No genre has passed so suddenly from dominance to obsolescence and, despite the successes of Unforgiven and Dances with Wolves, the cowboy film has stubbornly refused to rise from its unvisited grave.