Review: The Mustang couldn’t drag you away, though it does buck a handful of prison-drama expectations GlobeArts
, which lassos its central analogy and rides it, bucking-bronco-style, into the sunset. But while almost everything about this drama is obvious, director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre captures it with a swirling and dusty sort of beauty.
’s chief concern, and so we keep returning to a familiar jailhouse tale about a violent, perpetually angry Nevada inmate Roman coaxed into training wild mustangs before they’re sold at auction. Although de Clermont-Tonnerre veers away from the story’s expected ending at the last minute, the set-up is entirely paint-by-prison-numbers, including one subplot involving contraband smuggling and another focusing on Roman’s estranged teenage daughter.
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