
A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes. What will happen as the boy sets out to find the horse again? The film is set in the gorgeous landscape of the Camargue, a marsh area in the south of France where the river Rhone meets the Mediterranean Sea.... (Full plot summary below)
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A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes. What will happen as the boy sets out to find the horse again? The film is set in the gorgeous landscape of the Camargue, a marsh area in the south of France where the river Rhone meets the Mediterranean Sea.
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| Slant MagazineFernando F. CroceBeauty in Albert Lamorisse's brand of cinematic poetry stems from a childlike view of the world that sees bliss and sorrow as inseparably bound and equally enchanted. |
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottFor a 50-minute film, White Mane gives you a whole lot to think about and to remember. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonThe black-and-white shots are beautiful . . . then there is the closing shot, a fantastic melding of escape and loss. |
| User ReviewDenny CThis is a love story, pure and simple. An unusual friendship. A spectacular piece of film making. Exquisitely shot in black and white. I missed the original release (way back when) but came upon a recently released copy this weekend - fell in love with it. Some earlier Flickr reviews called it boring. I call it phenomenal. |
| User ReviewMatthew AI couldn't understand the dialog (no English subtitles) but what I saw was awesome. |
| User ReviewI-Onell SOne of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. |
| User ReviewDimitris SA quietly logical film,the tale has certainly scattered elements from Exupery's philosophy and a childish mood such is in C.S. Lewis' Narnia books (check out the Horse and his Boy book),a balanced moral in the finale but a complete nectar. |
| User ReviewJason PA beautiful film. Wonderful how Albert Lamorisse captures the view of justice as seen from the point of view of a child. In thinking about the end of the movie, I think an adult would see this from a "practical" stand point and see that the boy and horse drowned but I think as a child I would has thought that the horse swam to a better place carrying the boy who saved him from the ranchers who constantly lied. So, from this point, the ending was wonderful. |
| User ReviewTom HWhile the story is not my forte, I couldn't help but be impressed by the photography of every single scene, the way the director manages to attain the performances he needs from animals (and the kid -- I don't know how he didn't drown eight times during the making of this), and of course the image that closes the film -- an impressive ocean tide in the foreground and a horse (carrying a boy) swimming through it in the background. This isn't a movie that can brag about its ability to tell a story. White Mane is one of those movies that says, Here, this is why they invented a device that puts photographs in motion. |
| User ReviewJuston CGreat imagery, a simple story about a boy and a horse that doesn't need many words to stay interesting. |