Sunday 8 August 2021

The Rider (2017 Chloé Zhao & scr)

So... this is the film that should have been called Calm with Horses. It's all true, basically. Brady Jandreau was a rodeo rider with a head injury, that's his dad Tim and sister Lane, and his hospitalised friend Lane plays his friend Lane. The scene in which he tames the horse was real. That Chloé manages to make all this into an incredible film is .. incredible. She has a great eye, and a great cameraman in the shape of Joshua James Richards (who's also her romantic other), who seems to shoot with only natural light always.

It's arguably better than Nomadland. We loved it.





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