Telluride: With ‘White Boy Rick,’ Matthew McConaughey Could Score a Supporting Actor Nom

As can be attested by anyone who has seen the 2014 film ‘71 — an indie about a British soldier caught behind enemy lines in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles — the French filmmaker Yann Demange is an extremely talented guy.

But his first Hollywood pic, White Boy Rick, which came in to the Telluride Film Festival with considerable awards buzz ahead of its world premiere on Friday (I caught it Sunday), is going to be a tough sell to the Academy.Like ’71, White Boy Rick is a film about a young man fighting for his life on the …

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