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Hostile review – surreal spaghetti western is a wild and wordless ride
['Arifa Akbar']
Guardian Middle East
The lone ranger at the centre of Olivier Rannou’s family-friendly western initially appears as stranded and desolate as one of Samuel Beckett’s anti-heroes.
He retains an edge of existential angst, struggling to survive in extremis, but also becomes more clown-like by turns.
Rannou shows us, through movement, expression and sound, that this cowboy is a wanted man, on the run, wrestling with the dangers of his barren, unpeopled surroundings.
Rannou brings great, easy physicality, although some of it feels rather abstract and you wonder where this one-man spaghetti western is going or what it is ultimately saying.
It absolutely amuses, but as a wordless show that does not try to explain itself, it is rather bemusing too.