Roger Hanin

When a contract killer for the mob is brutally punished for trying to leave the game, he sets out on a revenge mission against his former bosses.

A young thug driving a stolen car shoots and kills a police officer who was pursuing him. In Paris, he turns to an American girl, a student and aspiring journalist, who hides him while he tries to raise money to escape to Italy. But as the police pressure increases, so does his desperation.

When the family of rancher John Benedict is massacred by a gang of outlaws, he recruits a cutthroat posse of outlaws to bring the killers to justice.

An achingly romantic vision of wanderlust and unsettled ennui, Earth Light is the most optimistic of Guy Gilles’s features. Like his earlier films, it’s a rhythmic, fragmented study in memory, and how the pleasures of the present moment can stave off the emotional dead-ends of a regretful past.