Lads & Jockeys
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  • Summary: In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers – flirting, cell phones and PlayStation – – they enter a world where the comfort of the horses comes before that of the human. This documentary film tells the story of Steve, Florian and Flavien during their first year of apprenticeship. It leads to Flavien’s first race, which officially puts him in the restricted world of jockeys. (Music Box Films)… Collapse

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    Nov 29, 2011
    70
    Director Benjamin Marquet mingles black-and-white footage of students past with that of his current focus - three 14-year-olds in their first year of a jockey apprenticeship - to build a sense of specificity and continuum into a timeless passage.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Nov 30, 2011
    70
    A must for the equine-inclined, and a candid look at fearful ambition.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alison Willmore
    Dec 1, 2011
    67
    By giving the boys onscreen room to be goofy and immature, Marquet makes the film something warmer than a formal study in discipline and being made to grow up before their time.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Dec 1, 2011
    60
    Lads & Jockeys conveys first-race terrors and last-place humiliation with indulgent thoroughness.

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