Lone Star

Running time: 135 mins

Synopsis

John Sayles’s masterful 1996 neo-western mystery quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.

When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. When Sam reencounters his high school flame (Elizabeth Peña), it becomes clear that secrets from the past can’t stay buried forever. 

Showing as part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour, a selection of films from the 2024 programme of Cinema Rediscovered, the Festival dedicated to the rediscovery and revival of great films.

Rating Advice

strong violence, sex, racism

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