WESTERN

Director: Manuel Poirier

Cast: Sergei Lopez, Sacha Bourdo, Elizabeth Vitali, Marie Matheron.

Awards: Grand Jury Prize (Cannes, 1997).

Running time: 121'
Year of production: 1997
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: 16 & 35mm (color)

Distributor: New Yorker Films


"For Poirier it is something like a mission to remind us that displaced people are always in our midst - even in the unlikelisest of places. His films do not glorify these people, but record their experience with an abiding sympathy that cannot help but affect the audience." San Francisco International Film Festival.

After his samples are stolen by a hitchhiker who drives away with his car, Paco, a Spanish shoe salesman, is stranded in a small town in Brittany. He falls in love with a local woman and eventually even forms an unusual alliance with Nino, the car thief. When Paco's new girlfriend tells him that she needs some space, it is Nino who suggests they hit the road. Their travels bring them into contact with the people of French countryside, where each new experience tests the bonds of their friendship.

 
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