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Ghostbox Cowboy

2018

David Zellner, Specialist, Robert Longstreet, Vincent Xie ...

Comedy. Drama A dullard Texas entrepreneur reinvents himself as a cowboy in China's tech wild west, but finds himself at the mercy of corrupt American expats looking to reinvent him once more.

	Media	Author	Review
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"[An] inventive, absurdist parable (...) Though by its very nature somewhat uneven and unwieldy, what Maringouin has wrought here has a kind of exhilarating chaos to it, something comparable to relatively few prior films"
		Harry Windsor The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] feels frighteningly real (...) The film’s immediacy is aided by Maringouin's use of documentary techniques"
		David D'Arcy Screendaily	"This culture clash plays more with delightful nuances than with big surprises, but David Zellner brings plenty of American innocence to the role (...) Stylish, comic and shameless"
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The pointed humor is merely one component of this bracing movie, shot and edited to look like a documentary of a nightmare (...) A genuine find."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Ghostbox Cowboy' truly defies categorization, and remains so unpredictable that no single viewing can resolve the fertile ideas it puts on the table"
		Joe Blessing The Playlist	"Fascinating, atmospheric and utterly strange (...) 'Ghostbox Cowboy' shines in its details"

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