I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973)

Original title

J'irai comme un cheval fou

Directed by

Fernando Arrabal

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man with epilepsy is wrongly accused of killing his mother. He escapes to a desert where he meets a hermit. They return to the city and the hermit joins a circus.

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What happens

I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (French: J'irai comme un cheval fou, also known as I Will Go Like a Wild Horse) is a 1973 French surreal drama film directed by Fernando Arrabal. The film first released on 22 November 1973 in France and stars George Shannon as an epileptic man who, falsely suspected of murdering his mother, flees to the desert where he meets a hermit and brings him back to the city where the hermit becomes a circus performer. Since its release the film has been shown at some film festivals such as the 2013 Psych Out film festival in Newcastle upon Tyne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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