L'Épouvantail (Scarecrow)

Max and Lion meet while hitchhiking. Max is fresh out of prison, while Lion is returning from a long stint in the navy, which he joined to escape his responsibilities as a father. After capturing the downfall of drug addicts in The Panic in Needle Park, Jerry Schatzberg turns his focus to a friendship built around a shared desire for redemption. Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this poignant existential journey critiques an arbitrary society that relegates its outcasts to the status of ghosts.