Special envoy to Cannes
It all starts with dazzling.
That of a kid who describes to her father a cowboy all smiles with his hat, his pair of jeans and his boots.
On the loose leaf of an old notebook where his father draws it, the character is faithful to the model.
The scene takes place on the side of a highway in Minnesota, in the heart of 1970s America. The family sedan is in the ditch.
The mother is chomping at the bit.
The siblings are bored.
However, the father and the daughter share this moment of complicity, as if to better seal this strong filial bond.
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snub
,
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