When his daughter goes missing from their prairie town east of France, Alain and his young son, Kid, embark on a 16-year odyssey to track down the girl, who has run away and converted to Islam.
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17 January 1973, Uccle, Belgium
1982, Northern Ireland, UK
29 June 1960, Paris, France
13 June 1971, Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
24 May 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
December 04, 2016
This is an intense, thoughtful film about family, obsession and man's search for grace in a world gone mad.
June 30, 2016
"Les Cowboys" keeps you off-kilter from the start.
June 24, 2016
Remaking a classic John Ford western might sound like a good idea, but there's just one problem: You're not John Ford.
July 28, 2016
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.
June 24, 2016
It proceeds with a hushed tone that wants to be taken for observant modesty, but eventually reveals itself as suffocating self-importance.
July 29, 2016
A hybridized, John Ford-infused, French Western from writer of Jacques Audiard films.
July 22, 2016
While the film's allusive structure demands a viewer's concentration, it rewards the effort with a timely message about overcoming the fear of the other and a quietly moving conclusion.
July 31, 2016
It succeeds in humanizing the world's biggest political football without taking sides. No easy task, but the impartiality robs the story of any emotional or rooting interest.
October 11, 2016
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]
June 30, 2016
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.
June 24, 2016
With all this working against it, Les Cowboys strikes a fresh chord.
