Buck is the 2011 American documentary film directed by Cindy Meehl. The film focuses on the life, career, and philosophy of Buck Brannaman's "real life whisperer".
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Synopsis
Buck has explored Buck Brannaman's life from his childhood with his cruel father to his successful approach in handling and training horses. Brannaman worked on Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer as the main horse consultant. He teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment.
The documentary follows Brannaman to several stops on his normal ranch circuit, 40 weeks a year where he gives clinics on "natural horseback riding". He spent most of the year on the road, regardless of his wife and daughter. Along the way, viewers learn about his childhood including his celebrity as a children's trick rope, the physical violence that he and his brother experienced in the hands of their father, how a soccer coach helped to free him from his father after seeing traces on Buck's back and legs, and live with Shirley, her adoptive parents.
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Cast
- Buck Brannaman as himself
- Robert Redford as himself
- Mary Brannaman as herself
- Reata Brannaman as himself
- Betsy Shirley as herself
- Gary Myers as himself
Production
Buck was conceived, directed, and produced by Cindy Meehl. This is his first movie. When Meehl watched Brannaman at one of his clinics in Pennsylvania, he thought, "Everyone should know this, everyone should know how to teach."
In the end, he gathered the courage to ask Brannaman if he was interested in making a movie about his method. During the clinic at McGinnis Meadows Cattle & amp; Guest Ranch in Montana, he saw Brannaman sitting alone at lunch and approaching him about filming. Two and a half minutes later, she has a "yes" and her phone number - and goes on a two-year journey to make her first movie. Meehl formed Cedar Creek Productions, LLC in 2008 to produce the film.
Reception
Buck premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where he won the U.S. Audiences Competition Audience Award.
The New York Times gave Buck his NYT Criticism. John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a very interesting portrait of character" it "as simple as the subject and won the audience with ease." For The Washington Post, DeFore provided the Critic's Pick documentary and wrote "Buck" is one of the rare documentary films whose subject is inherently stunning so the fictional characters can barely compete. "
Marshall Fine, from Hollywood and Fine, writes in The Huffington Post that Buck is a "fun as a documentary can, a movie that will touch you emotionally even when you watch the action in enchantment. "David Edelstein, from NPR, called the" boss "a beautiful but very beautiful documentary."
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film three stars and wrote "What's left of me is Buck Brannaman's kindness as a man.He handled a hand that might have destroyed him.He overcame his beginnings and is now a wise role model and influential.He did on the horses as he hoped his father would do to him. "
Awards
- Sundance Film Festival 2011 U.S. Documentary Documentary Audience Award
- Documentary Film Awards Full Documentary Film Festival 2011, April 2011.
References
External links
- Official website
- Buck on IMDb
- Buck at Rotten Tomatoes
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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