The American election seen from France
In 1952 Howard Hawks shot a film that helps understand the weird political relation French people weave with American politics. The film is named The big sky in the US and La captive aux yeux clairs in France. Two titles for two ways of looking at the same continent. In this film, the audience follows a gang of trappers sailing up the Mississippi in the prospect of some kind of negotiation with a native tribe up north. Among the gang, half are French and half are English. The
