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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. Jul 28, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Peter Keough
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. Jun 30, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Christopher Kompanek
"Les Cowboys" keeps you off-kilter from the start. Jun 30, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
"Les Cowboys" keeps you off-kilter from the start.
Bill Goodykoontz
Remaking a classic John Ford western might sound like a good idea, but there's just one problem: You're not John Ford. Jun 24, 2016 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Remaking a classic John Ford western might sound like a good idea, but there's just one problem: You're not John Ford.
David Ehrlich
It proceeds with a hushed tone that wants to be taken for observant modesty, but eventually reveals itself as suffocating self-importance. Jun 24, 2016 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
It proceeds with a hushed tone that wants to be taken for observant modesty, but eventually reveals itself as suffocating self-importance.
Glenn Kenny
With all this working against it, Les Cowboys strikes a fresh chord. Jun 24, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
With all this working against it, Les Cowboys strikes a fresh chord.
Peter Rainer
Les Cowboys never gets out of the gate because, as a character-based drama, it fails to provide a single character worth investing in. May 24, 2019 | Full Review…
Les Cowboys never gets out of the gate because, as a character-based drama, it fails to provide a single character worth investing in.
C.J. Prince
It's hard to dismiss something this visceral and ambitious, even if it doesn't necessarily work. Apr 1, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's hard to dismiss something this visceral and ambitious, even if it doesn't necessarily work.
Daniel Barnes
A somber, engrossing modern day French re-setting of "The Searchers" which keeps its quest and racial metaphors intact. Oct 3, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A somber, engrossing modern day French re-setting of "The Searchers" which keeps its quest and racial metaphors intact.
Roger Moore
It's a lot to process, though never dull. Aug 29, 2017 | Full Review…
It's a lot to process, though never dull.
Diane Carson
Though the ending deviates from The Searchers, it definitely plays like a comment on John Ford's enduring, if racially discomforting classic. Aug 18, 2017 | Full Review…
Though the ending deviates from The Searchers, it definitely plays like a comment on John Ford's enduring, if racially discomforting classic.
Kathy Fennessy
Less a treatise on extremism than an exploration of western fears and prejudices, this is potent and provocative - and packs a skin-prickling finale. Jan 3, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Less a treatise on extremism than an exploration of western fears and prejudices, this is potent and provocative - and packs a skin-prickling finale.
James Mottram
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