Cowboys (film)
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| Original title | Cowboys |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 85 minutes |
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| Director | Anna Kerrigan |
| script | Anna Kerrigan |
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Gigi Graff , Anna Kerrigan, Chris Parker , Dylan Sellers |
| music | Gene Back |
| camera | John Wakayama Carey |
| cut | Jarrah Gurrie |
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Cowboys is a film drama directed by Anna Kerrigan and first made available online to Tribeca Film Festival attendees on April 15, 2020.
action
Troy is out and about in the mountains of Montana with his 10-year-old child. Joe is actually a girl, at least that's how her mother Sally raised her, but she feels like a boy. After he bought Joe western clothes like real men wear and they borrowed his friend Robert's white stallion because his truck had given up, the two of them are out in the wild, camping under the stars and eating cold beans, like cowboys do. It's all a great adventure for Joe.
Sally has since noticed Joe's disappearance, has panicked about their whereabouts and reports the incident to the police. However, she neglects to mention that Joe cut his hair short and identified himself as a boy because she simply cannot come to terms with the fact. Detective Faith Erickson finds out about this when she finds a photo of Joe on the dashboard of Troy's abandoned truck.
production
Staff and construction
Directed by Anna Kerrigan , who also wrote the script. After Five Days Gone, it is her second feature film that she directed. Even if Kerrigan loved the people of Montana, where she lived with her family from the age of 15, she had noticed how religious and extremely homophobic the people and some of their friends there were. As an adult, a liberal creative with many LGBT Q friends, it was difficult for her to reconcile her love for a place and these people who were so against the LGBTQ community. This conflict was the trigger for her film Cowboys .
Commenting on the hoped-for impact of her film, Kerrigan said, “I want people from across the political spectrum to relate to the father and son at the center of this film, regardless of their prejudice. I think ultimately it's a film about family, tolerance and the problem of being an outsider. Everyone feels like an outsider at times, so hopefully everyone will be able to relate to the two main characters. "
In flashbacks, the viewer learns that Joe was born a girl and that her stubborn mother Sally wanted to keep it that way by forcing her to wear clothes and play with dolls, and how Peggy Lee herself served as a role model. In the central scene of the film, Joe explains, “I'm not a tomboy . A tomboy's just another type of girl, but I'm not a girl. ”(“ I'm not a tomboy. A tomboy is just a different kind of girl, but I'm not a girl. ”) This is how Joe wants to explain to his father why he can no longer wear clothes and adds: “Sometimes I think aliens put me in this girl's body as a joke. I'm in the wrong body, okay? I am a boy."
Cast and filming
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Steve Zahn plays Troy and Jillian Bell plays his wife Sally. For Sasha Knight , who plays her transson Joe, it is the second film role after Maybe Shower . For the search for a non-binary trans child , which in addition to the general difficulties of finding child actors, was an additional special challenge, Kerrigan had worked with casting director Eyde Belasco, who Knight finally got through his contacts in transgender self-help groups and summer camps and connected to parents of transgender children.
Ann Dowd played Detective Faith Erickson, AJ Slaght played Sally's nephew and Chris Coy played Jerry's brother-in-law. Gary Farmer stars as Troy's buddy Robert Spottedbird.
The shooting took place in the west of the US state Montana and ended in the fall of 2019. Filming locations include the Flathead National Forest and Glacier Park with the Grant Glacier . Kerrigan, who lived in Montana as a teenager and especially learned to love nature, says of the location: “Glacier National Park in particular is so beautiful it almost hurts. The streams, waterfalls, the mountains, the trees, the air, the wildlife, it's really heavenly. "
Film music and publication
The score was composed by Gene Back , who used guitars and percussion instruments to create the atmosphere of a modern western .
The film should celebrate its world premiere in mid-April 2020 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival . One month before the start of the festival, it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Nevertheless, the film was made available online from April 15-26, 2020, the festival's original time slot. From the end of August 2020 it will be shown at the virtual Outfest Los Angeles, an LGBTQ + film festival.
reception
Reviews
Critics have repeatedly noted that the film looks like a homage to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .
IndieWire's Jude Dry says the classic western, with its reflections and descriptions of harsh masculinity, has always been fascinating for children playing with gender roles when trying to get on the boyish side of the spectrum. For example, the outlaw-buddy dynamic in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford , a film that established the term " Butch ", has its tragic but heroic end with children who are used to it to feel alone and invisible was very popular. Cowboys had some of the magic of this classic, Dry said, and was a modern western. Although Troy was joking at first, the father was largely unimpressed by Joe's coming out and immediately took him to shop for flannel button-ups . As the film progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that despite their arduous journey, which is sometimes cold and both are hungry, Joe is safe with his father in a different way, perhaps in a more important way.
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David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter writes that the smile that spreads across Joe's face as the film takes in details like an oversized silver belt buckle is beautiful, as is the scene that follows when he sees classic all- denim cowboy clothing tried on and satisfied with his thumbs through his belt loops. These beautifully watched moments would appeal to any child who has ever felt like an outsider desperately trying to find peace in their own skin. Rooney also notices that his parents react differently to his coming out. While Troy accepts him as a son, Sally fights against the clues and tries to force Joe into strict social norms, in particular through the predominant use of feminine pronouns. Even if the plot is ultimately a bit thin and in places even simple, Rooney names the central idea of a hastily improvised "kidnapping" of a loving father out of a child's desperate plea to be free, robust, and the mental connection of two misunderstood outsiders to become Steve Zahn and Sasha Knight played with moving emotion. It is a pleasure to see the underrated tooth in a leading role.
Awards
Outfest Los Angeles 2020
- Awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance - US Narrative ( Sasha Knight )
- Nomination in the narrative competition
- Award as Best Actor ( Steve Zahn )
- Award for Best Screenplay ( Anna Kerrigan )
Web links
- Cowboys in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cowboys in the program of the Tribeca Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g David Rooney: 'Cowboys': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 30, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Jude Dry: 'Cowboys' Review: Steve Zahn Charms in Tender Buddy Western About a Trans Boy and His Dad. In: indiewire.com, April 23, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Rebecca Martin: Filmmaker Anna Kerrigan takes us on the heartfelt journey of a father and his trans son in "Cowboys". In: cinemafemme.com, May 6, 2020.
- ↑ Cody Corrall: Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Anna Kerrigan - "Cowboys". In: womenandhollywood.com, May 4, 2020.
- ^ Andrew Stover: 'Cowboys': A Contemporary Western That Draws From Empathy & Parental Love. In: filminquiry.com, May 1, 2020.
- ↑ http://www.annakerrigan.com/cowboys
- ^ Rebecca Rubin: Hugh Jackman, Pete Davidson Movies to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival. In: Variety, March 3, 2020.
- ↑ Marc Malkin: Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Due to Coronavirus. In: Variety, March 12, 2020.
- ^ Hilary Lewis and Trilby Beresford: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Online Programming as Films Are Judged Remotely. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 3, 2020.
- ^ Vassilis Economou: The 19th Tribeca Film Festival is postponed. In: cineuropa.org, April 14, 2020.
- ↑ Dino-Ray Ramos: Outfest Los Angeles Sets 'The Obituary of Tunde Johnson', 'Monsoon', 'Two Eyes' And More For Virtual LGBTQ Film Fest. In: deadline.com, August 10, 2020.
- ↑ Daniel Reynolds: Outfest Announces 2020 Winners and Surprise 'Encore Week'. In: advocate.com, August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Amanda N'Duka: Tribeca Film Festival: Netflix's 'The Half of It', 'The Hater', 'Socks On Fire' Among Award Winners For Postponed 2020 Edition. In: deadline.com, April 29, 2020.
- ↑ The Winners Are In. In: tribecafilm.com, April 29, 2020. (Video)