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MANE ATTRACTION Albert Lamorisse's White Mane set the pace for the director's brilliant The Red Balloon, which followed three years later
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
In The Red Balloon, a boy bonds with an airy plaything too impish, and free, for the adult world. In White Mane, which director Albert Lamorisse made three years earlier (and which, like The Red Balloon, is now being rereleased), a boy bonds with a white stallion too wild, and free, for the adult world. This earlier incarnation of the theme is grittier, less sunny, as the horse is hunted by ruthless men who want to trap it, break it, ruin it. A haunting final escape seals the cost of freedom. A-
Posted Nov 21, 2007
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