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Horse

The Last Horse / El último caballo
Series: Spanish Cinema Now! [Dec 8 - 26 2006]
Director: Edgar Neville, Country: Spain, Release: 1950, Runtime: 85

“It has been written that the influence of Italian neorealism arrived in Spain with two works, Furrows by Nieves Conde and That Happy Couple by Berlanga and Bardem. This is quite an arbitrary assertion, since Edgar Neville’s The Last Horse appeared on Spanish screens one year earlier. The film is certainly neorealist, although its neorealism is not a copy of anyone else’s, it has been filtered through the unmistakable personality of its director. The plot of the film tells of a soldier (Fernando Fernán Gómez) who, after being discharged, buys the horse he rode in his regiment as the regiment is about to be motorized and the horse is slated to be sent to the bullring. Much to his surprise and sadness, he finds that there is no place for such a noble animal in Madrid. The story of the ex-soldier and his horse is unexpectedly moving, and the film ends as a hymn to nature — long before ecology became so fashionable… Neville was a true auteur, and holds an unquestionable and outstanding place in the history of Spanish cinema.” – Emilio Sanz de Soto, Spanish Cinema 1896-1983




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