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  • 2010
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2010
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Little does...

Directed By: Frederic Lilien

Written By: Janet Hess

  • 2010
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2010
  • Balcony Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

The Legend of Pale Male

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Little does...

Directed By: Frederic Lilien

Written By: Janet Hess

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
51
33% Positive
3 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
11% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
51
33% Positive
3 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
11% Negative
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75
Dec 11, 2010
This is compelling stuff, but Lilien is less successful in trying to link Pale Male's story to his own.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 25, 2010
Family-friendly holiday fare.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 27, 2010
You won't find a tale more true to our city than the extraordinary history of Pale Male. It's just unfortunate that Frederic Lilien's documentary is as clunky as his subject is graceful.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 25, 2010
A sugary, aggressively anthropomorphized story of one avian interloper and a whole bunch of human obsessives.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 25, 2010
Despite spending nearly 15 years documenting this phenomenon, Lilien proves wholly uninterested in investigating his human subjects' habit of vigorously anthropomorphizing, and projecting their personal hopes, dreams, fears, and Daddy issues onto the striking hawk.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 25, 2010
Lilien certainly captures Pale Male's wild animal beauty in loving close-up. What his film needs, however, is distance.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW
38
Nov 27, 2010
Lilien is an amateur filmmaker, and his movie -- which at times is more about Lilien than Pale Male -- shows it.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Birdjail Productions
Release Date Nov 24, 2010
Duration 1 h 25 m
Genres
Tagline A hawk, a city, a love story.
Website http://thelegendofpalemale.com/HOME.html
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Awards

Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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