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The french weekly Figaro Magazine produced a series of short films by foreign directors, on the theme
"France as seen by.....". Lynch was the only American to participate.
The comedy is set in a conventional farwest, in which rancher Slim (Harry Dean Stanton) has been deaf
ever since he was a teenager, when the firing of a large-calibre bullet shattered his eardrum.
Slim goes out with his cowboy and Indian friends (among whom is Michael Horse, deputy 'Hawk' of
'Twin Peaks") and captures an odd creature wearing a beret and speaking a bizarre language.
Like a salesman, this individual is carrying objects as odd as a ripe, odorous Camembert cheese which Slim
finds offensive, a loaf of French bread and some miniature Eiffel Towers. These tourist cliches about France
are thus rehearsed and ridiculed, and the encounter between France and America ends with musical fellowship
around a campfire, mixing French cancan and women singing country and western tunes, and giving rise to
some noisy, dreamlike images.
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