Cowboy
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Benoit Mariage
Benoît Poelvoorde
Gilbert Melki
Julie Depardieu
Frantois Damiens
Bouli Lanners
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Synopsis
Daniel Piron, a former left-wing journalist who has been reduced to hosting a TV show on traffic safety, has a chance encounter with Sacchi, a man who was the author of a school bus hijacking 25 years earlier. Sacchi had hoped his stunt would allow him to denounce social injustice on TV, but he was arrested before he could get on camera. Piron, for whom Sacchi has remained a revolutionary icon, has an inspiration: he'll find the protagonists of the earlier hostage-taking in order to make an ambitious new film on the evolution of society. Alas, Sacchi is no longer the revolutionary he was a generation ago. Piron must manipulate reality and he becomes the new hijacker in a reconstitution of events that goes terribly awry.
Director
Benoit Mariage
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2007
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (Focus on World Cinema) August 23-September 3, 2007.
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (Focus on World Cinema) August 23-September 3, 2007.)
