Minute 9: U.S. Go Home (opens in new tab)

Alain is all awkward points – a rangy frame on clothes hanger shoulders. He’s got a squint like Eastwood’s but isn’t handsome with it. Even as the verse amps up, in this moment of ostensible release, his arms pivot around a locked torso, as if this room were a cell barely large enough to contain him. And it’s here, in this cell, in this body, that Alain claims his authority over the forces that still linger in his country. Late in the film, he will refuse a friendly gesture from Capt. Brown (...