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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.
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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 ....

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