Review of The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) by Anna B — 04 Feb 2011
A bizarro satire of Westerns and French culture, David Lynch's short film The Cowboy and the Frenchman was produced for French TV and essentially parodies the American conceptualization of the French as beret-wearing, snail-eating sissies.
Simultaneously, the film pokes fun at the stereotypes of cowboys and Native Americans. The Cowboy and the Frechman feels like a surrealist version of an episode of Hee Haw or possibly a tripped-out version of a Roy Rogers film.
If there is a point to the film, it is merely to mock our stereotypes of one another, but more than that it is just an enjoyably strange romp than could only have been created by David Lynch--it doesn't hurt that it features Harry Dean Stanton and Tracey Walter who both appeared in Alex Cox's Repo Man.
This review of The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) was written by Anna B on 04 Feb 2011.
The Cowboy and the Frenchman has generally received positive reviews.
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