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The 1997 film Western will be shown on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit as part of the Kirkland Project "Masculinities" series.  A discussion facilitated by Associate Professor of French Martine Guyot-Bender will follow.

Western is a road movie, a road movie however that features no horse, no open space, no decisive characters.  The two men, the two "foreigners," who meet in Brittany walking the roads of the French countryside have lost everything that defined them.  Paco, the eye-catching Spanish immigrant, has lost his wife, his work, his car, and his status.  Nino, a jovial naïve Russian immigrant, has lost everything too, although he had very little of what defines social status in the first place.  Western is the story of a friendship between two losers who allow ordinary circumstances to build an unlikely friendship around them, a story that questions many boundaries and stereotypes and needs no closure.

Co-sponsored by the French Club.  Popcorn and cider served.  Free and open to the public.

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