All the Wild Horses (2017)
All The Wild Horses documents the Mongol Derby horse race, the longest and toughest horse race in the world, and easily the most epic and dangerous, as it leads through 650 miles of Mongolian steppe, desert and mountain ranges.
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Why so much hype?
A different way of telling a story
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Superbly done! I felt captivated from the start. This film does a great job of following race contestants, and feeling connected to such an otherworldly place. I felt like a virtual participant in a great adventure. I was fully entertained from start to finish. What more can you ask of a film? Mongolia is now a destination on my bucket list.
Ivo Marloh has done a splendid job documenting the World's Longest Horse Race, the Mongol Derby. Having completed this race in 2017, I can honestly say how well this film shows the true challenges of the adventure. The competitors all show grit just to make it to the starting line. Those that actually ride all of the 1000km and cross the finish line in one piece are few and far between. Being able to follow some of these brave men and women along their journey in All the Wild Horses is priceless. I loved the film and how it captured the iron will of Devan Horn, the compassion of Erik Cooper, and the honest horsemanship of Monde Kanyana. Well done Ivo!
Having been fortunate enough to experience this event as member of the crew I can say Ivo Marloh has really captured the spirit of this gruelling race and the stories of the riders, all from the unique perspective of a rider! If you are a rider, adventurer, explorer, sportsperson or traveller make sure you see it!
So basically, it's all about a bunch of (mostly) white westerners that come to Mongolia to have fun riding horses. To feel better about themselves, they pretend to be participating in some sort of Mongolian ancient horse race. What they do instead is organising their own Mongolian-free event, just in case they'd catch some disease from the locals. The native Mongolians are only given a tertiary role in this film, if only to give it an exotic flavour and to entertain us with a few traditional, feel-good images.I left the cinema after realising I didn't give a crap about supremacist Westerners riding pointlessly around the steppe. I'd have rather seen the Mongolians race themselves and be interviewed about what they think about foreigners coming to mess with their affairs. This way I might have learnt something about their culture, which is no doubt far more interesting than the pretentious feelings of some spoilt adults acting as colonisers.