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Release Date: 01 May, 2001 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $4.95! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
The Black Stallion Reviews
Excellent and different family movie
You won't find movies like this made any more. It would be considered "slow" by today's standards. However, the island sequences and sounds are incredibly beautiful and engaging, as well as the charming opening of the father regaling some of his intrigueing poker winnings to his son. I have to admit I fell asleep for most of the second half, but my 7 yr old son seemed mostly amused. Best fit for 6-10 yr. old kids.
Startlingly Beautiful and Moving
This film would indeed by considered "slow" by contemporary viewers, and so much the worse for them. I saw it for the first time only a few weeks ago, knowing that Pauline Kael loved it, and hoping that my son would find it sufficiently engaging to give me a break from the Wiggles. I've seen it 5 times since then, and its beauty still startles me. There is no pandering in this film, either to parents or to children. There are no references to popular culture. Kelly Reno is a quiet, thoughtful boy who is never asked to play to the camera, and never does. No mood or action is unnecessarily underlined. The huge, spirited but dangerous stallion is never humanized or reduced to a toy; he remains a horse, and beautiful for that reason.
The interaction between the boy and the horse is superior to any I've seen on film. The animal wranglers belong in whatever hall of fame they have for that profession, and so do the director and cinematographer, for their brilliant framing of that interaction.
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