What would American auteur cinema be without its road trips and its initiatory journeys?
The Sweet East
by Sean Price Williams is one of the beautiful gems unearthed last year by the Deauville Festival, which rightly awarded it the jury prize.
A high school student bored in her hometown, Lilian takes advantage of a school trip to run away and discover her country.
The further his journey takes him from Washington, the more we sink into the fable.
Anti-capitalist punks, a white supremacist university professor, two dreamy Hollywood directors and ending with a group of young Arabs fascinated by weapons, Lilian plays on her charm without getting all her benefactors into bed.
She hangs out with all the outsiders and conspiracy theorists in America.
Each projecting preconceived ideas onto her that the kid continues to thwart.
Map of American fractures
There are little touches of
Easy Rider
in this increasingly absurd and hallucinatory odyssey, carried by the mutiny and thieves...
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