Western
55th New York Film Festival
September 29 - October 15, 2017
Valeska Grisebach uses the Western as a template for her supremely intelligent genre update about an all-male group of German workers who are building a water facility in remote rural Bulgaria, and the conflict that arises between the reserved newbie and the boorish team leader.
German director Valeska Grisebach uses the Western as a template with which to draw out eternal human conflicts in this supremely intelligent genre update, her first feature in a decade. In remote rural Bulgaria, a group of German workers are building a water facility. Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann), the reserved newbie in this all-male company, immediately draws the ire of the boorish team leader, not least for his willingness to mingle with the wary locals. Cast with utterly convincing nonprofessional actors, Western is a gripping culture-clash drama, attuned both to old codes of masculinity and new forms of colonialism. An NYFF55 selection. A Cinema Guild release.
A masterpiece.
—Andrew Chan, The Criterion Collection
A stunning existential study of masculinity.
—Giovanni Marchini Camia, Sight & Sound
A powerful, deeply human and intricately political drama.
—Daniel Kasman, MUBI Notebook
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