Morals and Nowheres: Les Cowboys

 
Les CowboysDirected by Thomas BidegainIn theaters now
Les Cowboys, a new film by French director Thomas Bidegain, does a splendid job of situating you in a generally bewildering, intermittently misleading, recognizable yet unfamiliar, frequently uncanny, sometimes alarming, occasionally sublime, overall almost strangely ideologically neutral sort of geographico-political nowhere—one that is also, at certain junctures, a most specific somewhere. Now drifting, now darting, now wander