Name: Lucky
Director: John Carroll Lynch

A 90-year-old atheist has outlived and out-smoked his contemporaries, and as he accepts his own mortality, he searches for ever-elusive enlightenment. The film follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out lived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut "Lucky", is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on morality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.

Keywords

American Cinema
Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
Locarno Film Festival!
identity

Actors

Amy Claire
Harry Dean Stanton
Tom Skerritt
Barry Shabaka Henley
David Lynch
James Darren
Sarah Cook
Beth Grant
Ron Livingston
Ana Mercedes
Bertila Damas
Yvonne Huff
Hugo Armstrong
Ulysses Olmedo
Ed Begley Jr.

Director

John Carroll Lynch

Drama

1h 28min

tous publics

ENGLISH

DUTCH

FRENCH

United States

2017

A 90-year-old atheist has outlived and out-smoked his contemporaries, and as he accepts his own mortality, he searches for ever-elusive enlightenment.

The film follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out lived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut "Lucky", is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on morality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.