LaRoy

Ein Kaff in Texas: Ray erfährt, dass ihn seine Frau betrügt. Als er sich gerade erschießen will, wird er von einem wildfremden Mann mit einem Auftragskiller verwechselt. Ray kommt nicht mehr aus der Nummer heraus, während der tatsächliche Mörder nicht lange auf sich warten lässt. In seinem Regiedebüt schickt Shane Atkinson seinen Hauptdarsteller John Magaro (der Bäcker in FIRST COW) als depressiven Jedermann durch eine staubtrockene Neowestern-Kleinstadtkomödie voller glückloser Privatdetektive, sarkastischer Stripperinnen und schmieriger Baumarktbesitzer. Ein präzise gebauter, an den Coen-Brüdern geschulter Pulp-Krimi mit extrafiesen Slapstick-Einlagen. (Gian-Philip Andreas)

In Anwesenheit von Shane Atkinson, Matthew Del Negro, Mathilde Graf (Produktion) und Elly Senger-Weiss (Produktion).

Ray is an ordinary man who runs an ordinary business in the fictional town of LaRoy, Texas. He longs for his wife Stacy-Lynn’s affections, but they are being given to someone else. As if this love triangle weren’t complicated enough, a third character also enters the conversation: Skip, a private detective who is mocked by the local police force and always dressed in the latest cowboy fashions. Skip shows Ray pictures of his wife entering a motel room, whereupon Ray decides to put an end to his suffering. But just as Ray is about to kill himself, a mysterious man intervenes, asking Ray to kill someone else instead, by the very next day; money is handed over, but instructions are not, turning this man who no longer wants to live into the protagonist of a freewheeling adventure. A complex plot involving love triangles real and fake, blackmail, counter-blackmail and manslaughter duly unfolds around inadvertent detective duo Ray and Skip, who will have to solve the mystery at the heart of their community. LAROY is at once a film about friendships forged from fragile masculinity and a dark Western that probes the aftermath of the financial crisis in the US. (Lucía Salas)

In the presence of Shane Atkinson, Matthew Del Negro, Mathilde Stiglechner-Graf (Production) and Elly Senger-Weiss (Production).

Shante Atkinson: LA GRANDE MALADIE (2009, K), PENNY DREADFUL (2013, K), THE AMBASSADOR (2018, K)