
Right under everyone's noses, Kelly--the sixteen-year-old daughter of the devoted father and aspiring country singer, Alain--vanishes into thin air, during a mid-1990s cowboy fair. Convinced that his girl is kidnapped and that her incomprehensible disappearance is somehow connected to her newly discovered Muslim boyfriend, a furious and desperate Alain sets out on a long journey into the unknown to find missing Kelly, following a menacing trail of breadcrumbs from Antwerp to ... (Full plot summary below)
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Right under everyone's noses, Kelly--the sixteen-year-old daughter of the devoted father and aspiring country singer, Alain--vanishes into thin air, during a mid-1990s cowboy fair. Convinced that his girl is kidnapped and that her incomprehensible disappearance is somehow connected to her newly discovered Muslim boyfriend, a furious and desperate Alain sets out on a long journey into the unknown to find missing Kelly, following a menacing trail of breadcrumbs from Antwerp to Yemen and Pakistan. Against the backdrop of the devastating September 11 attacks, Alain and his son, Georges, find themselves always one step behind, as fierce hatred turns into destructive obsession. A father and a brother want their Kelly back; however, is the young woman they seek, the woman they lost?
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| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekWhile the film's allusive structure demands a viewer's concentration, it rewards the effort with a timely message about overcoming the fear of the other and a quietly moving conclusion. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereA hybridized, John Ford-infused, French Western from writer of Jacques Audiard films. |
| Brooklyn MagazinePaul D'AgostinoA most strangely crafted western of sorts pertaining to identities, families, and senses of belonging all lost, perhaps eventually to be regained. |
| Film-Forward.comKent TurnerLes Cowboys stays on focus, while packing in a lot of story. Concise yet overflowing with incident, it's intimate and large scale, told with hindsight and immediacy. |
| Film Comment MagazineAlejandro VecianaWhile Bidegain's dialogue is sharp and the time-skipping construction sly, one wishes he would have found what he was looking for in Les Cowboys. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAs in “The Searchers,” some of the motivations are questionable and murky. Yet the pain of losing someone you love is just as palpable. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversLes Cowboys pulls in with no intention of letting you go. It's a workout worth taking. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisUnfolding with a reticence that’s occasionally confusing, Les Cowboys presents a suggestive, almost abstract take on terror and the generational toxicity of bigotry. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangIts strength lies in the way it continually collapses the distance between people and cultures, forcing its characters to reckon with what they perceive as strange and unfamiliar. |
| El antepenúltimo mohicanoIgnacio NavarroBidegain shows great ability for condensation, making this film feel more complex of what it really is. [Full review in Spanish] |