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A still from The Wanting Mare. (Photo: Gravitas Ventures) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Everything I’d read about The Wanting Mare had me excited. Writer-director Nicholas Ashe Bateman spent five years making the film in a Patterson, NJ warehouse, doing many of the visual effects himself, envisioning it as the first in a full franchise exploring a vast new world. After watching the trailer, it became obvious that ....
The Wanting Mare Review: A Visually Transporting Fable With a Stubbornly Opaque Story The Wanting Mare Review: A Visually Transporting Fable With a Stubbornly Opaque Story Nicholas Ashe Bateman s directing debut is a triumph of dystopian world-building as three generations of women share the same dream of the world before. Mark Keizer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 89 MIN. The explanatory text that opens “The Wanting Mare,” Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s ambitious, epoch-spanning directing debut, informs us that in the city of Whithren, citizens are desperate to escape by booking passage on the once-a-year transport ship that carries wild horses to the wintry promised land of Levithen. These words, a fantasist’s delight, only barely set the table for what’s to come, a visually enthralling but elliptical and withholding quasi post-apocalyptic drama about three generations of Whithren women who carry with them the burd ....