(1966) Alternative title: Les cow boys sont noirs
Les cow-boys sont noirs
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Description
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One is a taxi-driver, the others mechanics or bricklayers. They drive Johnny Halliday scooters and wear Zazous trousers. During the weekend they act in a real-life western with revolvers they bought in the supermarket. They are mad on violence, their favourite actors are Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford and their pistols are loaded with blanks. And the heroine of the film is a salesgirl in the Galerie de Niger. With Le retour d’un aventurier, the Nigerian film-maker Mustapha Alassane made the first African western, sufficient reason for Serge-Henri Moati to film “the making of”. Les cowboys sont noirs shows the shooting of the film, and demonstrates that the boundary between reality and fiction, and between film and life, can at times be pretty narrow, especially when its about the conquest of the West.
