Critique of the film “Americana”: Sydney Sweeny convinces in aspiring country singer

Controversy around Sydney Sweeney may benefit to Americanaa film noir original enough to arouse interest.

Americana opens onto a pre -adolescent, Cal (Gavin Maddox Bergman), who declares to be the reincarnation of Sitting Bull. For example, He says that most seriously in the world in Dillon (Eric Dane). In addition, the little recommendable boyfriend of his mother Mandy (Halsey) who only wants one thing: to get out of the small village of the southern Dakota where she lives. Similarly,

At the same time. Lefty (Paul Walter Hauser) is insecure, suffers from loneliness and tends to ask in marriage the women with whom he recently left. He therefore repeats his request to Penny Jo (Sydney Sweeney). a shy waitress, who Bégaye, and whose big dream is to become a country singer. In filigree, there is also a police critique film “americana”: sydney sweeny intrigue around theft, a precious Lakota ceremony costume, a First Nations tribe.

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We will find, in this first feature film by Tony Tost, an undisguised influence of Quentin Tarantino (among others, in the scene where Cal kills Dillon of an arrow in the middle of neck). But there is something else. a kind of melancholy and sadness, palpable in the fact that Lefty is a veteran of Afghanistan, returned with a head trauma, or in the fact that Mandy will help a group of women to regain their freedom.

We appreciate the sentimental critique film “americana”: sydney sweeny touch of the improbable duo formed by Sydney Sweeney. Paul Walter Hauser (it was the touching Richard Jewell of the eponymous feature of Clint Eastwood) and we like to see the actress in a role to years lights of that of the series Euphoria or from Anyone except you.

Far from the controversy of advertising for American Eagle jeans. this Americana is a modern western which incorporates solid elements of police suspense, enough violence to delight amateurs and to the humor sometimes tongue-in-cheeky that we appreciate.

Note: 3.5 out of 5

Americana Buzz in the cinemas of the province from August 15.