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Crin-Blanc (1953)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 6/19

6/19: After seeing Le ballon rouge, I thought Crin-Blanc (White Mane) would be more of the same, but instead, I saw fighting among horses, a defenseless rabbit being chased, and a boy and his horse nearly drowned.

I mean, what the hell? This isn't my idea of entertainment or what passes for a children's film. It's so slow that hardly much happens. The ending tells me nothing: just stupid thinking on both sides. So what if the herders finally catch the boy and his horse? It's not going to solve much.

While the horse is bucking off and running around the ring at a high speed, it has to be painful to hold on to the rope. Talk about a bunch of burns and blisters on the hands. Incidentally, the director of the film is Albert Lamorisse, and he invented the board game Risk in 1957. He died at the age of 48 in a helicopter accident while shooting a documentary short in Iran. Folco's little brother is his son Pascal who's the same kid in Le ballon rouge.

All in all, if an animal is doing too much work to provide entertainment for the film, there's no point in watching it in the first place.

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