section KINO FERMISHED

The Last Cowboy in Salford

  • Jakob Lancaster
  • UK
  • 2023
  • 15

Jonny Richman is a seventeen year old Jew. He is also a cowboy, much to his parent’s frustration. A darkly comic neo-Western set in Manchester, England.

Jonny considers himself a cowboy and dresses like one too. Even in the synagogue, which doesn't go down well with the congregation. The Western outfit looks pretty cool and yet it’s also like something out of a film, and pretty out of date. From Manchester, the only way west is by suburban train. There it's not the last frontier that awaits, but instead a handful of right-wing radicals. Yet sometimes even old-fashioned role-playing with a revolver, bandana, and cowboy hat still makes sense—especially today, even in Manchester.

Text: https://www.pilimilifilms.com/films and Bernd Buder


Supporting film for JEWS OF THE WILD WEST (Amanda Kinsey, US 2022, 82 min)


Credits

original title The Last Cowboy in Salford

international title The Last Cowboy in Salford

german title The Last Cowboy in Salford

JFBB section KINO FERMISHED

  • director Jakob Lancaster

country/countries UK

year 2023

duration 15