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Film A Girl Is a Gun (Une Aventure de Billy le Kid) (1971)

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Luc Moullet's rarely screened meta-western stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as a long-haired gunslinger who gets into a tête-à-tête with Rachel Kesterber's tanned seductress. Moullet named King Vidor's Duel in the Sun as a major influence, though A Girl Is a Gun is considerably more freewheeling than any comparable Hollywood product. The story is so minimalist it almost evaporates; Moullet's subversive psychedelia is a striking counterpoint to Sergio Leone's straighter spaghetti-western celebrations. The film's self-consciously absurd English dubbing adds yet another layer to Moullet's jagged comedy, and makes it a natural fit for SFMOMA's "Non-Western Westerns" series.

 

– Max Goldberg

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