The Rider

2017 | Drama | 104 minutes | English

 

Info
Brady, his autistic sister, Lilly, and their father live in poverty on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home to the Lakota Sioux. Brady, once a rodeo star, suffered brain damage from an accident and can never compete again. Brady’s father.Wayne, is incapable of caring for the family, spending the little money they have on  gambling and drinking. Brady takes a job as a store clerk to help support his family and  buy a horse. Brady’s constant riding and refusal to rest sufficiently causes him to have a seizure. The doctor  informs Brady he should never ride again. The next seizure could be fatal. Upon returning home, Brady is informed  his horse broke a leg trying to jump a fence. He has to be shot. Bereft,  Brady decides to enter  rodeo competition despite the doctor’s warnings. At the rodeo, when it’s Brady’s turn to ride the bronco, he becomes emotional seeing his father and Lilly watching him. Is what he’s doing worth it?
Cast
Brady Jandreau (Brady Blackburn) / Tim Jandreau (Wayne Blackburn) / Lilly Jandreau (Lilly Blackburn)
Why Stream This Film?
If you were a film producer and you happen to see the film The Rider, directed by Chloé Zhao, wouldn’t you move heaven and earth to hire Chloé to direct the film NomadlandIf you did that you were very smart. As we now know, Chloé won the Oscar for directing Nomadland
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 97%
  • Metacritic Score: 92
Accolades
  • National Board of Review: Listed, Top Ten Independent Films of the Year
  • National Society of Film Film Critics: Winner, Best Picture; Nominated, Best Director (Chloé Zhao)
  • Gotham Independent Film Awards: Winner, Best Feature
  • Palm Springs International Film Festival: Winner, Best Director (Chloé Zhao)
The best American movie this critic has seen in the past year. Chloé Zhao’s THE RIDER is the kind of rare work that seems to attain greatness through an almost alchemical fusion of nominal opposites. The film’s style, its sense of light and landscape and mood, give it the mesmerizing force of the most confident cinematic poetry.
Godfrey Cheshire

RogerEbert.com

Ms. Zhao knows how to take care and when to take risks. She has an eye for landscape and an acute sensitivity to the nuances of storytelling, a bold, exacting vision that makes THE RIDER exceptional among recent American regional-realist films.
A.O. Scott

The New York Times

Casting a dramatic film with non-actors is always a risky proposition. But Chloé Zhao’s dreamlike Western THE RIDER is one of those happy exceptions.
Moira Macdonald

The Seattle Times

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