The Horse Whisperer
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Movie Reviews of The Horse Whisperer
Movie Review: Like Redford himself the movie has aged well!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had the pleasure of viewing this movie projected on the big screen when it was first released, however, I was disappointed in the ending which diverges from the 1995 book by Nicholas Evans. It has taken me a while to understand why director/star Robert Redford ended on a moral high note. I believe he was trying to convey lessons he had learned from mistakes he made in his personal life.
Panned for its length, happily the leisurely pace of The Horse Whisperer is today a visual valentine to the breadth of our great country, from snowy New England meadows to majestic thunderstorms in Western mountain ranges. The movie has aged like a fine wine and I have to periodically uncant it to savor Redford's grace notes - the way Tom Booker (Redford) secures a missed button on Annie's (Kirstin Scott Thomas) dress; the various stations coming over the car radio during the journey west; the look on Grace's (Scarlett Johansson) face when she realizes she can drive; that one slow waltz between Annie and Tom which conveys more raw emotion than most torrid sex scenes.
What's not to like here? No director has managed to elict a finer performance from Johansson; Kirstin Scott Thomas is at the peak of her beauty; Chris Cooper, Diane Weist and Sam Neill are all pitch perfect, heck even the little Booker boys are great. Although the plot centers around a kind, wise and patient animal trainer who nurses a girl and her stallion back to health, the healer is only human and I believe he fell for Annie from the first time he laid eyes on her which adds the poignancy of this memorable movie. Beware, the Horse Whisperer can make a girl yearn to live in Montana, and just remember, Tom Booker isn't there!
Movie Review: Henrik Riis (hriis@hotmail.com) age 28
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to give enormous credit to Robert Redford for this outstanding movie! Normally I wouldn't try out acting as a film critic but when it comes to The Horse Whisperer I feel that I have to. I saw the movie three times in the Theater and it got even better the second and third time. This is my first movie ever to be seen three times in the Theater! The Horse Whisperer is a deeply moving film that compares to nothing else that I have seen come out of Hollywood. It doesn't make use of any high tech special effects that we have gotten so used to ( in order to tickle our toes ) - it doesn't need to! This movie is so simple, pure and decent as were it of a different time - a time long forgotten where ideals stood high and no one would attempt to make a movie unless you really had a good story to tell - the Horse Whisperer does. Especially the love scenes in the movie are unique - everything is not painted out like in so many other movies nowadays - no, it leaves something for your fantasy, which makes the scenes so much stronger. I really cannot recommend this movie enough - anyway if however one should be disappointed it must be because one is lacking the true fundamental feelings that arises within the heart - love, pain, sorrow etc.
Robert Redford has dared going up against the trendy filmmakers in Hollywood who only manages to touch our heart - feelings - in a very superficial way. Ones you leave the Theater the movie you just saw is no longer with you. The Horse Whisperer is not like that it will haunt you - that is of course in a positive way! I will make sure to get this film on DVD as soon as it comes out in Denmark.
Movie Review: And the film became poetry!
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert Redford has proved us his undeniable artistic gifts in previous occasions, but with this giant movie he really achieved that coveted pearl; the state of art in all its wholeness.
Redford crossed over the traditional concessions and he got to prove art and cinema should not be divorced: good taste and profitability may gather and shake hands, if you respect the sensibility and intelligence of the spectator.
This picture not only broke the walls and not only became the most ambitious, artistic and perfect American film in the last quarter of Century; besides, the mature and sensitive script around an awful event that will transform the livings and expand the reduced frontiers of two different ways of life, enhancing them when the tragedy became an unexpected gate for the bliss.
Redford' s artistic personality has a secure place in the immortality and I really hope for him to bring us future films filled of that enriched vision where the rude vulgarity, the visible special effects big circus and the simple anecdote not only be absent; and so the new directors to come, understand the true cinema meaning is ART.
Thanks to his generous personal effort, for having created the Sundance Festival for new directors whose fruits will create new approaches and major visions.
Special kudos to him due that clinical eye for a very young actress in progress at those years:
Scarlet Johansson.
Movie Review: The Horse Whisperer
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, okay lets all agree on one thing here: the book is always better. that said, lets move on. "The horse whisperer" was a beautiful movie. It opens up with a young girl, Grace MacLaen. She lives in New York with her parents and her horse Pilgrim. One early morning her and a friend go out for a snow-filled trail ride. But where there is snow, there is ice and Grace's friend, Judith, slips (actually her horse, Gulliver, does)and they come crashing down into a fatal and life changing accident. After grace recovers enough to walk again, her mother realizes that something has changed within the young girl and forces her and pilgrim to take time out and seek help in montana. The "horse whisperer" tom booker (redford) sees that the threesome needs him in the worst way possible. Going against his belife in helping the horses, not the people, he sets out to help them. And so begins his long and demanding "healing" process. Pilgrim reaches a breakthrough and an old frienships is born again with the girl he once loved and trusted. But Grace's mother isnt ready to leave montana quite yet for she has fallen in love with the magical cowboy. All in all it was an excellent movie. but as i have said before the book is always better. watch the movie first and then "feel" (not see) what really happens when you read the book!Movie Review: unwind in the Montana mountains
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a unique movie from the millions of others out there. The plot starts with Grace(Scarlett Johansson) and her best friend meeting to go horse back riding and with Grace's mom Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas) working hard in her magazine office. When the girls are riding a tramatic and tragic accident happens causing the death of Grace's best friend and severe injuries to both Grace and her horse Pilgrim. Grace's right leg is severely hurt so they must amputate it. With her daughter becoming more distant from the family and Pilgrim becoming more afraid of humans, Annie is desperate to find relief or an answer somewhere. She reads an article about a horse whisperer named Tom Booker (Robert Redford) who heals horses. Anxious to give it a try, Annie, Grace, and Pilgrim travel from their home in New York to a cattle ranch in Montana and begin Pilgrim's healing process while Grace's father stays behind. What no one expected was the love situation that would come about when Tom and Annie met. Combined with a teriffic plot and the beautiful Montana scenery, this is definitely a movie not to be missed.