Let Her Be !
I read these comics over and over as a child: slim A4 volumes of bandes désinées translated from the French. What strikes me now is how lovingly they seek to mimic the world, gestures, characters and interactions of the actual Hollywood Western - John Ford's especially, no doubt. All these corny sequences seem direct homages to scenes with John Wayne and Victor McLaglen (and here, why not, that random sweetheart Angie Dickinson) -- perhaps written and drawn by cavalry fans from almost the same generation as the Cahiers directors and critics whose quirky romance with Hollywood issued in so many of the most enduring themes and tones of the last fifty years.
Let Her Be !
I read these comics over and over as a child: slim A4 volumes of bandes désinées translated from the French. What strikes me now is how lovingly they seek to mimic the world, gestures, characters and interactions of the actual Hollywood Western - John Ford's especially, no doubt. All these corny sequences seem direct homages to scenes with John Wayne and Victor McLaglen (and here, why not, that random sweetheart Angie Dickinson) -- perhaps written and drawn by cavalry fans from almost the same generation as the Cahiers directors and critics whose quirky romance with Hollywood issued in so many of the most enduring themes and tones of the last fifty years.