Even by weird standards, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues is an oddball movie. And this eccentricity that you can witness in the movie is by far one of the most memorable things of the film. I am and always was a big fan of Gus Van Sant's cinema, but truth says that he hasn't tried anything as weird as this one any other time. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues is a movie that celebrates the unusual, the perplexing, the one that you see and you go bananas afterwards. Introduced as a romantic comedy-drama western, the film can be read as a circus of odd characters and strange situations that are mixed, the one with the other, finally giving to the audience a film that you want to take with you when you go on vacation. Thumbs, cars, airplanes, cowgirls, joints are all packed in a film that goes into your mind and massages the craziness inside you.
Gus Van Sant is directing with exceptional style and pizazz that movie, giving to the film a modern fairy tale flavor and packs inside his film all the freaks that he can find, all the outcasts he can find, all the lunatics he can find. A colorful, joyful ride that goes from the absolute humorous to the very melodramatic and from the totally kitsch to the most gallant. A surprising role for Uma Thurman as the female protagonist, we are not so used watching her to such kind of totally crazy movies, she fits the role perfectly and gives to the character a flavor of girly power. Even Cowgirls is a movie not for mainstream audience, most probably they will fall fucking asleep during the film, but it's a movie for the brave ones, the dreamers, the ones that have visions of... erotic cowgirls, the ones who think that art is here to make us really question our own frontiers in aesthetic.
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