Blueberry, l'expérience secrète
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| Directed by | Jan Kounen |
| Written by |
Gerard Brach Matt Alexander Jan Kounen |
| Starring |
Vincent Cassel Juliette Lewis Michael Madsen Djimon Hounsou Eddie Izzard |
| Music by |
Jean-Jacques Hertz François Roy |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
| Edited by |
Jennifer Augé Bénédicte Brunet Joël Jacovella |
| Distributed by | UGC Fox Distribution Columbia TriStar (2004) (USA) (as "Renegade") |
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124 minutes |
| Country | France Mexico United Kingdom |
| Language | English German French Spanish |
| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $5.7 million |
Blueberry (French: Blueberry: L'expérience secrète) is a 2004 French acid western directed by Jan Kounen. It is an adaptation of the Franco-Belgian comic book series Blueberry, illustrated by Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius) and scripted by Jean-Michel Charlier. However, the film has little in common with the source material. The film starred Vincent Cassel as the title character along with Michael Madsen and Juliette Lewis. Although the film is a French production, the film is in English to match the story's setting in America's Wild West in the 1870s. Since the character of Blueberry remains obscure in the States, the film was released on DVD in America in November 2004 under the title Renegade and marketed very much as a conventional Western.
U.S. Marshal Mike Donovan (Vincent Cassel) (referred to as Broken Nose by the native tribe; unlike the comic his nickname is not Blueberry) has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of Blount, a "white sorcerer" lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals involving a native entheogenic brew, conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.
Jean Giraud, the famous Franco-Belgian comics creator and the illustrator of the original Blueberry comics, appears in a cameo role in the film, while Geoffrey Lewis, who had appeared in several spaghetti Westerns and his daughter Juliette Lewis play a father and daughter in the movie.
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