Why would Europeans make a movie in the United States? Doesn't it just cost more here? There are cases where they film here because Americans are too dumb to watch anything shot outside the United States. I don't know why they want to break into the American market so bad. But there are fake American movies, like the ones Polanski makes, set in the United States with American actors but filmed in France. There's not a region of Spain or Algeria they could have used? Maybe New Mexico is cheaper than those places.
Two Men in Town was a French-Belgian-Algerian production filmed in New Mexico, a remake of a 1973 Franco-Italian film, Deux hommes dans la ville.
Forest Whitaker plays William Garnett, released on parole from a New Mexico prison for killing a deputy 18 years earlier. He seems okay. Not friendly. He found religion, has converted to Islam. If he hadn't gotten paroled, he would have been released in three years anyway without the slightest supervision. But the sheriff (Harvey Keitel) starts harassing him.
For a former model prisoner, Garnett is surprisingly easy to provoke. He attacks a neighbor for playing his TV too loud. He was never annoyed by other inmates in prison?
The parole officer (Brenda Blehyn) seems nice enough, trying at one point to help a dying rapist get permission to go to Ohio where his family lives. They didn't say how his family would feel about it.
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