Requiem For Billy The Kid

With allusions to Rimbaud and Verlaine, filmmaker Anne Feinsilber presents an original French take on an enduring tale of the American West. For decades theories have posited that Billy the Kid’s grave does not contain the body of the notorious outlaw. Mixing Western history, vintage photos, accounts of a sheriff’s recent efforts to exhume the body of Billy’s mother and film clips from The Left Handed Gun and Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Feinsilber’s film reexamines the legend after more than 125 years of mythmaking.