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Even Cowgirls Get The Blues --
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106834/reference/
I did not watch this back 30 years ago when it came out because it was being promoted as a one of them new 'n upcoming "ELL GEE BEE TEE" films, and i thought well, i'm not a lesbian, so i guess this isn't for me.
Telling you about the story is kind of misleading, as the story isn't that important. Gus Van Sant film, the important thing is that this film is WEIRD, and Gus is full aware and complacent of this, taking his sweet time to focus on the weirdness over anything else. It's unfair to blame a film for lack of pacing when the film sets out to ignore these minutiae to begin with.
Young "Kill Bill" Uma Thurman is a girl who has been hitchhiking for most of the life. She also happens to have huge, mutated thumbs (that allegedly make hitchhiking easier) that are completely fucking irrelevant to the story, and could have been omitted with as difficult a move as removing the prosthetic, platicky thump cover-things.
She is brought to a "ranch", which is instead some kind of a spa retreat & combo actual ranch, for implied-lesbian art people, mostly models.
Eventually her good nature and socializing fires up their more rebellious nature and things get out of control.
.. i mean .. this film is about as coherent as Myra Beckenridge. Sure, the story is there, but you can't help asking "BUT WHY" pretty much all the time.
Cowgirls currently sits at an abysmal 4.2/10 on IMDB. I think this is a jolly good film that ought to be recommended to anyone who can appreciate the director absolutely not giving a flying fuck about any common film convention.
my vote:
7/10, with the caveat that, if you're a "normie", you will probably hate it.
@zinfamous ' kind of film