Ballad for a Cowboy
Libération: “Frédéric Laffont’s beautiful road-movie-style documentary is imbued with
of Hollywood mythology. The film opens in the mineral setting of Monument Valley,
the same place where John Ford shot many westerns.
But Clint Cannon's long road is more reminiscent of the nostalgic Indomitable
(The Lusty Men, 1952) by Nicholas Ray, in which Robert Mitchum played a rodeo cowboy confronted with the disillusionment of an increasingly materialistic modernity.”
A film by Frédéric Laffont
Duration: 1h03'
© Arte France, Interscoop, Artline Films, 2006
Editing: Mathilde Grosjean
Rodeo cowboys have this in common with the characters in John Huston's The Misfits:
They can only rely on themselves.
Clint Cannon. Wrist fractured three times, arm broken twice, kidney and liver punctured, shoulder dislocated, skull cracked... No matter. He's chasing his dream. The same one his father once had: to qualify for the Las Vegas finals.
From rodeo to rodeo, he crosses America. And filling up with gas also hurts his empty wallet.