Wild Horse, Wild Ride

The documentary takes up an annual competition. It is called the Extreme Mustang Makeover. Those who enter are horse trainers. Both professionals and amateurs are among them. Each is given a wild mustang. The span is a hundred days. The aim is to gentle the horse in that time. The horse is then ready to be adopted. Before that the horses were kept in government corrals. The film follows a handful of entrants from the 2009 event. The account begins with the first meeting. It then goes through to the competition and the adoption. The bond formed between person and animal is the real subject. Greg Gricus and Alex Dawson’s American documentary of 2012 runs a hundred and six minutes.