film profile] by Lucrecia Martel than to the standards of American westerns.
Who here remembers that Napoleon III launched a military expedition to Mexico where close to 40,000 soldiers were called to the banner of the tricolour flag in order to establish a local regime which would be favourable to French interests? Troops who, ultimately, prove elusive for Parisian photographer Louis Deville (
Malik Zidi) who has received authorisation from General Trochu (
Thomas Chabrol) to cover the war as a reporter, but whom we come across wandering around on his own in the film’s opening scenes, as he has been for three weeks, unable to find the 2
26/05/2021 - Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux delivers a promising first feature film: an atmospheric western about a photographer who loses his way during a French colonial expedition to Mexico in the 19th century
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14/05/2021 - Igor Legarreta tells a sad, sinister story of vampires, in which a girl who has fallen victim to the shortcomings of adults is forever trapped in childhood
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