Actress-turned-filmmaker Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s feature-length debut “The Mustang” focuses on the still-unique process of animal therapy treatment for prisoners, and she researched the project by witnessing the French program up close. It was a gamble for the female director. “I was surrounded by those men and it was a very masculine environment,” she said in a recent interview. But that disconnect ended up working in her favor. “I felt that was easier for them to open themselves to me, as a woman,” she added. “I got this wonderful trust from them that allowed them to go pretty deep into the psyche of the characters.”
De Clermont-Tonnerre didn’t know much about animal therapy treatment, until she happened upon a piece in a French magazine about the use of it in prisons nearly five years ago. “Therapists were entrusting small animals to inmates in this prison in Strasbourg, like rabbits,...
De Clermont-Tonnerre didn’t know much about animal therapy treatment, until she happened upon a piece in a French magazine about the use of it in prisons nearly five years ago. “Therapists were entrusting small animals to inmates in this prison in Strasbourg, like rabbits,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Lost souls of the animal and human variety coming together in a quest for salvation has been depicted on film numerous times before. Rarely, however, has it also been a prison movie where this story is being told. That’s where The Mustang comes into play. This flick never tries to be anything more than it is, but what it is somehow becomes beautiful. In the wrong hands, it could have been unrelentingly bleak and almost impossible to sit through. The threat of violence looms around every corner. Yet, what stays with you here is the passion that can be had through dedication. What stays with you is the power of redemption. All told, what stays with you is how good a work The Mustang truly is. The movie is a prison drama, centered on the story of Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts) an inmate serving time for a violent crime. We...
- 3/13/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
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