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Critics Consensus: Les Cowboys pays absorbing homage to John Ford's The Searchers while staking its own claim as a thoughtful and narratively distinctive modern Western.
Critic Consensus: Les Cowboys pays absorbing homage to John Ford's The Searchers while staking its own claim as a thoughtful and narratively distinctive modern Western.
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It takes a lot of confidence for a director to pay homage to John Ford's "The Searchers" (1956), and in the case of Thomas Bidegain's "Les Cowboys" it is not altogether unwarranted.
Bidegain and cinematographer Arnaud Potier speak multitudes with wide-angle, slow-panning shots that immerse us in a post-9/11 quagmire that's never less than utterly personal.
"Les Cowboys" keeps you off-kilter from the start.
Remaking a classic John Ford western might sound like a good idea, but there's just one problem: You're not John Ford.
It proceeds with a hushed tone that wants to be taken for observant modesty, but eventually reveals itself as suffocating self-importance.
With all this working against it, Les Cowboys strikes a fresh chord.
A somber, engrossing modern day French re-setting of "The Searchers" which keeps its quest and racial metaphors intact.
It's a lot to process, though never dull.
Though the ending deviates from The Searchers, it definitely plays like a comment on John Ford's enduring, if racially discomforting classic.
Less a treatise on extremism than an exploration of western fears and prejudices, this is potent and provocative - and packs a skin-prickling finale.
This is an intense, thoughtful film about family, obsession and man's search for grace in a world gone mad.
A drama where the echoes of western are clear and puts on the table, once again, the futility of the system in a kidnapping case. [Full review in Spanish]
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