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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m

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 ho...

Directed By: Benjamin Marquet

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m

Lads & Jockeys

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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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 ho...

Directed By: Benjamin Marquet

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
58
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
58
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
2 Reviews
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70
Nov 30, 2011
A must for the equine-inclined, and a candid look at fearful ambition.
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70
Nov 29, 2011
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.
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67
Dec 1, 2011
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.
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63
Dec 3, 2011
Half-formed expressions of disappointment, hope, struggle, confusion, and boyish playfulness on faces otherwise marked by youth's inexperience, and a self-consciousness brought on by the curiosity of being filmed, constitute the most memorable moments of Lads & Jockeys, a documentary on 14-year-old aspiring jockeys in France.
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60
Dec 1, 2011
Lads & Jockeys conveys first-race terrors and last-place humiliation with indulgent thoroughness.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 1, 2011
Racing enthusiasts will appreciate historical footage, while a thread about a new student overwhelmed by his responsibilities has promise. But after a decent start, Marquet stumbles, never making it across the finish line.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Groupe Deux, Léo Vision, Uni Etoile 4, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Dec 2, 2011
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.filmsdulosange.fr/uk_a_laffiche_lads.php
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