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As odd as it may sound, there have been instances where French filmmakers have taken a stab at that most seemingly all-American of story genres, the Western. A number of silent Westerns were produced between 1910 and 1915 and there was a minor revival of the genre in the Sixties that probably hit its apotheosis with the release of Louis Malle’s 1965 “Viva Maria!,” a sexy goof in which Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau played two women named Maria who inadvertently invent the striptease and then become revolutionaries in Central America. More recently, there was the genre-breaking “Blueberry” (2004), a very trippy adaptation of the French-Belgian comic book series illustrated by the legendary Moebius. Presented in America as a conventional oater named Renegade, that film featured the likes of Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Eddie Izzard, and Ernest Borgnine. ....
‘Savage State’ Review: A Visually Splendid but Dramatically Fuzzy Civil War-Era Drama Variety 1/28/2021 It could be argued that “Savage State” ultimately seems worse than it really is only because the opening scenes of this French-Canadian-produced period drama are so deceptively promising. But, really, writer-director David Perrault (“Our Heroes Died Tonight”) has no one to blame but himself. Despite any good will (or at least simple curiosity) he might generate during his intriguingly offbeat first-act set-up, he actively encourages his visually splendid but dramatically fuzzy film to gradually devolve into a gonzo mashup of gothic melodrama, Wild West survival story, and voodoo-flavored supernaturalism, with a side order of slasher-movie tropes and a sprinkling of kinky sex insinuations. ....