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Valeska Grisebach on Subverting the Western Genre in Cannes Palme d’Or Contender ‘The Dreamed Adventure’

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Valeska Grisebach on Subverting the Western Genre in Cannes Palme d’Or Contender ‘The Dreamed Adventure’
May 22, 2026 6:25am PT Valeska Grisebach on Subverting the Western Genre in Cannes Palme d’Or Contender ‘The Dreamed Adventure’

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Leo Barraclough

International Features Editor

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At the start of German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach’s “The Dreamed Adventure,” a chiselled featured man rolls into a dusty border town, having been absent for years. It’s changed, but so too we find has he. It’s like the start of a Western.

This is no coincidence, Grisebach tells Variety, ahead of the film’s world premiere on Friday in the Cannes competition section. She was inspired to make the film after she shot her film “Western” in Bulgaria, which also used the genre to explore the Eastern Europe country.

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