Resonant Olympic sporting crowdpleaser. If you grew up with a horse background you'll probably love it! The jumping action is visually great (predictably where Christian Duguay shines best), if diluted through repetition and audience unfamiliarity with the finer details.

That said, I felt like we barely got to know the horse and spent most of the time with his annoying sod rider/owner. An animal based film should always show a little more interest in its titular star than we really get here. We also dearly miss Daniel Auteuil's anchoring presence in the third act, whose offscreen death is barely commented on. But jumpin around in competition effectively silences disgruntlement whenever it arises.

That is a feel-good family movie. Yah, who could resist getting cought by this predictable story? Every time I watch a film involving an animal, especially horses and elephants, I find it hard not to. Never thought I would get in to it at this point, though. It's not flawless, but at least there is a French touch that is not the Hollywood one.

Were I not an aspiring Donald Sutherland completist, I'm not sure I would have picked up an overlong sports biopic revolving around a particularly uninteresting sport. The lead mostly comes off as something of an entitled dink, which doesn't help, but there's good support from de Laâge and Auteuil.

Si te gustan las películas de deporte no te puedes perder esta, como en todas ellas habla de sacrificio y de superación, pero creo que solo por los paisajes merece la pena verla

A biopic about the famous French horse you've never heard about, in a niche sport you've never cared to watch.

A little long and the jumping starts to get repetitive after a while. Not knowing the finer points and rules of show jumping didn't help either.

The owner/rider was a self entitled ass.

Resonant Olympic sporting crowdpleaser. If you grew up with a horse background you'll probably love it! The jumping action is visually great (predictably where Christian Duguay shines best), if diluted through repetition and audience unfamiliarity with the finer details.

That said, I felt like we barely got to know the horse and spent most of the time with his annoying sod rider/owner. An animal based film should always show a little more interest in its titular star than we really get here. We also dearly miss Daniel Auteuil's anchoring presence in the third act, whose offscreen death is barely commented on. But jumpin around in competition effectively silences disgruntlement whenever it arises.

ne montrez pas ce film à nagui... ^^

Un peu long et un manque d'originalité avec une histoire qui est prévisible a chaque tournant. C'est un film correct et on peut voir a quel point l'histoire tient a Cannet mais c'est pas non plus super interessant si on y connait rien.

simplemente genial

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Amongst thousands of results from Olympic Game throughout the past 120 years one particular statistic is the apotheosis of this movie. When French rider Pierre Durand won the equestrian obstacle jump with his horse Jappeloup at the Seoul Olympics the whole French nation had a new hero. Everybody was enamored with this black horse that was rather small but had an enormous jumping prowess. This movie chronicles the career of Jappeloup along with the life of his rider and owner. Not without drama, Jappeloup draws on the viewer’s emotions when the trials and tribulations of this particular couple are shown throughout the years. This is not only a movie for horse aficionados but a worthy entertainment for everybody interested in good storytelling. 8.0/10

Triumphalism by any other name…
For me, de Laâge makes this worth watching. Her Raphaëlle is the film’s empathetic core, the unsung qualifier, that binds the story's energy and raises it above common sport good fortune. Without Raphaëlle's permanence as the durable force, it’s just another game long lost, or won, either way.

最后那双手一飞，略燃，其他只记住了跨栏时的慢镜头

Were I not an aspiring Donald Sutherland completist, I'm not sure I would have picked up an overlong sports biopic revolving around a particularly uninteresting sport. The lead mostly comes off as something of an entitled dink, which doesn't help, but there's good support from de Laâge and Auteuil.

apparently it is really hard to cast people who can ride and act.... also writing a script is an impossible task to do