Cowboy Angels

The American Kim Massee, who grew up in France, worked for directors like Raymond Depardon, Wim Wenders and Raoul Ruiz before starting to direct herself. Having shot her first short films in Manhattan and France, in her feature debut she has her characters travel to Spain.
Pablo (11, played by Diego Mestanza, Massee’s son) lives with his mother in a cheap hotel in Paris. Their life is primarily set in Paris cafes where the mother spends too much of her time. When she deserts Pablo for the umpteenth time, the boy decides to go looking for his father. He convinces the poor poker player Louis, whom he met in a bar, to drive him to the Catalan coast. When they arrive in Spain, the quest starts among Pablo’s mother’s ex-boyfriends for the man who might just be his father.
Massee shot Cowboy Angels with a digital hand-held camera, which gives the film a sensitive directness. In what becomes a personal and hopeful odyssey, both the adult Louis and the child Pablo seem to be adrift in a world in which they are looking for someone to whom they really mean something. ( SdH )

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