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Ride Above

Mélanie Laurent

Pio Marmaï

Kacey Mottet Klein

Carmen Kassovitz

Charlie Paulet

June Benard

Carole Bouquet

Danny Huston

Atmen Kelif

Antoine Cholet

Paul Bartel

Hugo Becker

Oscar Gautier Moulin

Alex Terrier-Thiebaux

Marco Luraschi

Hubert Myon

Emeline Faure

Midie Dreyfus

Thémis Terrier-Thiébaux

Delphine Montaigne

Christophe Donner

Christian Duguay

Lilou Fogli

Maxime Delauney

Romain Rousseau

Christophe Graillot

Maxime Lahaie

Frédérique Doublet

Frédéric Grandclere

Vincent Casiro

Stéphane Gluck

Morgane Demetrau

David Reinhard

Tom Randaxhe

Camille Lada

Mylène Mostini

Pauline Barki

Pascale Bouquière

Jérôme Caron

Karine Palazzi

Chloé Van Lierde

Alice Cambournac

Charles Barberousse

Fabien Ricour

Florian Cornet

Hans Laitres

Henry Warluzel

Iknoyan Anouche

Pierre Bonnet

Thibault Bru

Arnaud Hermeline

Baptiste Imbert

Bastien Leroux-Rebut

Mathilde Cathelin

Adrien Guillaume

Johan Lecomte

Julien Torloting

Michel B. Bordeleau

Michel Cusson

Mathieu Ageron

Joe Iacono

Marie-Claude Poulin

Ardavan Safaee

Nathalie Toulza Madar

While it happily avoids current Hollywood story formula, this astonishing film is well served by the Withdrawal-Devastation-Return structure that it inherits from Mediterranean oral epic.  Yet it was not the film’s durable structure that mesmerized me and the rest of its first American audience Friday night at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.  What astonished me was the extraordinary moral depth of this achingly beautiful story and world from Writer/Director Christian Duguay.  His film is emotionally riveting from the first scene to the last.
The movie is well grounded in the quintessential theme of cinematic, horse-themed stories: emotional honesty as the basis for meaningful relationships, despite, in the last scenes of the film, some surprising chicanery that illustrates the value of those goods internal to an activity or calling over those that are external to any one life or practice, like money and fame. The film makes us believe in and care about its characters, and ultimately, and entirely in its subtext, the film does something even more extraordinary: it exhibits and extolls the virtues themselves. The story itself retains all the uncertainties of our contingent, vulnerable existence, but the implicit argument of the story is emotionally compelling and inexorable.  Ride Above is a charming, heartbreaking, beautiful exercise of a viewer’s own imagination and sympathies.  This reviewer feels he became, somehow, a little better as a human being for having seen it.

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Mélanie Laurent

Pio Marmaï

Kacey Mottet Klein

Carmen Kassovitz

Charlie Paulet

June Benard

Carole Bouquet

Danny Huston

Atmen Kelif

Antoine Cholet

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