The sincerity that Brie brings to her full-fledged embodiment of mental illness is major, and in turn helps "Horse Girl" overcome its tricky storytelling. Horse Girl proves unwilling or unable to explore the deeper themes it addresses, but this unusual drama is anchored by Alison Brie's committed performance. 'Horse Girl': Film Review An outstanding Alison Brie anchors this deceptive, unsettling, insightful depiction of worsening mental instability. Horse Girl movie reviews & Metacritic score: Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than p.
Streaming Movie Review 'Horse Girl' Review: Facing an Emotionally Taxing World. The film, which stars Alison Brie as a psychologically disturbed woman, delves into a troubled mind only to get. At Variety, Jessica Kiang writes, "The transgressiveness of Baena and Brie's strange and sorrowful Horse Girl, is in. 'Horse Girl' Review: Alison Brie, From Daffy to Dangerously Unstable 'GLOW' star sells the story of a young woman with a penchant for horses, sci-fi TV — and a questionable grip on reality Directed by Jeff Baena.
With Alison Brie, Molly Shannon, Goldenite, Stella Chestnut. Sarah, a socially isolated woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life. The site's critical consensus reads: "Horse Girl proves unwilling or unable to explore the deeper themes it addresses, but this unusual drama is anchored by Alison Brie's committed performance". Horse Girl, directed by Jeff Baena and co-written by Brie, observes - and then careens into - Sarah's loosening grip with reality. The story begins in familiar enough territory: Sarah. Horse Girl is an offbeat movie, intensely focused on the protagonist's descent, but giving supporting players some nice moments to play as well.
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And, with its supernatural story elements, the final sequence is just enigmatic enough to keep viewers wondering in spite of themselves. Alison Brie gets weird with her indie feature "Horse Girl," which she co-wrote, produced and stars in as the title character, a label for a certain type of young woman most often found in. So it's little surprise that Horse Girl, starring and co-written by Alison Brie, is hard to categorize.
What looks initially like a character study of a sweet but lonely young woman soon opens up. He is a graduate of Wesley College's Bachelor of Media Arts and Master of Sport Leadership. Horse Girl is an achingly sad movie about mental breakdown. In the first act of the film, I found the character development to be beautifully executed and I was rooting for Sarah.