Les Cowboys

Name: Les Cowboys
Genre: Drama
Released: June 24, 2016
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Agathe Dronne, Ellora Torchia, Finnegan Oldfield, François Damiens

2016

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Cohen Media Group | Release Date: June 24, 2016 | Not Rated

Starring: Agathe Dronne, Ellora Torchia, Finnegan Oldfield, François Damiens

Summary: A vast prairie, a country and western gathering somewhere in the east of France. Alain is a central figure in this community. He’s dancing with his daughter Kelly, 16, as his wife and their young son, Kid, watch from the sidelines. But on this day, Kelly disappears, and the family falls apart. Alain embarks on a relentless search for hisA vast prairie, a country and western gathering somewhere in the east of France. Alain is a central figure in this community. He’s dancing with his daughter Kelly, 16, as his wife and their young son, Kid, watch from the sidelines. But on this day, Kelly disappears, and the family falls apart. Alain embarks on a relentless search for his daughter, even though it costs him everything and takes him to some far-off places. Dark unsettling places, where his sole support is Kid, who sacrifices his youth to accompany his father on this seemingly endless quest.… Expand

Director: Thomas Bidegain

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Jun 23, 2016

Unfolding with a reticence that’s occasionally confusing, Les Cowboys presents a suggestive, almost abstract take on terror and the generational toxicity of bigotry. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Jun 24, 2016

With all this working against it, Les Cowboys strikes a fresh chord. The rise of jihadism has infused this revenge scenario with (all too literally) new blood. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jun 23, 2016

Bidegain, who for years has served as the muscle behind Jacques Audiard’s scripts, advances his ongoing deconstruction of genre-movie masculinity in his uncompromising, anti-romantic directorial debut. Read full review

David Lewis

Jun 23, 2016

An absorbing, multilayered story about the search for a French girl who goes missing with her Muslim boyfriend, starts in a very un-French way: with cowboys, horses, a Marlboro Man-like billboard and country-and-western music. Read full review

Peter Keough

Jul 28, 2016

Alain might not have the very particular set of skills of Liam Neeson’s character in “Taken” (2008), but he does have the perseverance of John Wayne’s Ethan Edwards. Read full review

The Film Stage Nick Newman

Jun 22, 2016

Will it change my consideration of European-Islamic relations? No. Have I thought about its moral quandaries in the days since seeing this film? More than most others, at least. Does Les Cowboys create an itch to again see The Searchers? Absolutely — and that alone is a fairly strong end result. Read full review

Steve Macfarlane

May 25, 2016

Never content to suffice as a mediocre thriller, Les Cowboys is a wellspring of embarrassment for all parties involved. Read full review

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