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Last Cowboy Standing (Skavabölen Pojat, 2009) Director: Zaida Bergroth Presentation: Taking place over ten years, Last Cowboy Standing is the story of two boys who make a promise to one another that will be tested as they grow older and their relationships with their parents becomes increasingly difficult. Director Zaida Bergroth's film has been recognized and awarded at many film festivals and tells a tale of siblings and how one of them deals with what he considers a curse. Rupert and Evert are two young boys whose childhood is marked by typical childhood games such as Cowboys and Indians. Their warm yet explosive mother and charming yet unreliable father stay in the background for the most part until Rupert finds a hidden letter and their mother is taken away for a while. The brothers make a blood oath to never lie to each other or they will pay. As they grow older, Rupert's guilt grows as well as he tries to comprehend the events that have unfolded. If he cannot absolve, the curse he believes his family to have will continue to plague them. Will he break that blood oath if it means stopping the curse? Synopsis: In 1972, Rupert (Ilmari Järvenpää), 8 and Evert (Onni Tommila), 6 are two wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-indians fantasies and playground romances with the neighborhood girls. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then their mother is taken away. Ten years later, Rupert (Lauri Tilkanen) is still haunted by his childhood memories, trying to make sense of a series of events leading to a tragedy... Trivia: • The film won the Anjalankoski Film Prize for Best Film, Jussi Award for Best Script and Best Sound Design and the Flash Forward Award at the Pusan International Film Festival. |
