Danse avec lui (2007)

Réalisateur:

Valérie Guignabodet

Scénariste:

Valérie Guignabodet (writer)

Date de sortie:

21 février 2007 (France)

Avis des utilisateurs:

Broken creatures

Ensemble

Mathilde Seigner	...	Alexandra
Sami Frey	...	Le maître écuyer
Jean-François Pignon	...	Miguel
Anny Duperey	...	La mère d'Alexandra
Anthony Delon	...	Paul
Jean Dell	...	Daniel
Élodie Navarre	...	Lucie
Camille Varenne	...	Amélie
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus	...	Le professeur d'équitation
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Fabrice Bagni
Xavier Berlioz
Jacques Brucher
Quentin Grosset	...	L'écolier

Autre(s) titre(s):

Dance with Him (International: English title)

Durée:

France:118 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

Netherlands:6

Lieux de tournage:

Tourly, Oise, France

Société:

Pan Européenne Production

Broken creatures

Broken couple, broken riders, broken horses... life is incredibly harsh for the characters of this movie. Alexandra (Mathilde Seigner), a horse rider, has lost at the same time her jumping competition's horse, her fickle husband Paul (Antony Delon) killed in a car accident on the way to the hospital where she has been taken after her fall. The horseman (Samy Frey) is broken by his falls, by the time and the loneliness. The horse has been broken by a bad dressage, mindful of profits and quick results. The Spanish lad Miguel (Jean-François Pignon) is also under repair from his work as a stuntman.

Did someone around say "A Horse Whisperer in French!"? Indeed there are riders and horses in this movie, but no, nobody whispers: "I'm not a whisperer, I watch!" In fact, those broken creatures yell with pain, most of the time silently! And the horsemanship operated here is closer to Captain Étienne Beudant's teaching (a famous French horseman in the twenties: "Hand without legs, legs without hand!") than to the trendy school of "Natural Horsemanship", but the principles are all the same: to leave the horse acting naturally, to teach it by compassion and rewards instead of force and constraint, and to teach the rider to watch and to "feel" his horse.

The movie tells the story of the difficult convalescence of these characters. As usual, Samy Frey is the great and subtle actor we know. Mathilde Seigner plays beautifully opposite him and that marvelous dark stallion is an incredible actor! I gave 7 on 10 because of some clumsiness in the screenplay.