LaRoy

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)