Jean-Pierre Leaud and Rachel Kesterber star in the greatest French Western ever made. Never released in France but distributed in South America in an English-language version dubbed by Moullet himself, Billy’s dark tale of lust and revenge swings wildly between a slapstick insanity and a delirious experimentation that are kith and kin with Wellman’s Yellow Sky, Vidor’s Duel in the Sun, Godard’s Week-end, and Garrel’s La cicatrice interieure.  In rewriting an old saw (cinema and a girl is a gun, indeed), Moullet tackles favorite themes – time, landscape, exhaustion – with relish.