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A Girl is a Gun
(Une Aventure de Billy le Kid)

Screening on Film
Directed by Luc Moullet.
With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont.
France, 1971, 35mm, color, 100 min.
French with English subtitles.

Jean-Pierre Léaud and Rachel Kesterber star in the greatest French Western ever made. Never released in France but distributed in South America in an English-language version dubbed by Moullet himself, Billy’s dark tale of lust and revenge swings wildly between a slapstick insanity and a delirious experimentation that are kith and kin with Wellman's Yellow Sky, Vidor's Duel in the Sun, Godard's Week-end, and Garrel's La cicatrice interieure.  In rewriting an old saw (cinema and a girl is a gun, indeed), Moullet tackles favorite themes—time, landscape, exhaustion—with relish.

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