26-04-2018 21:33 via sltrib.com

Boy meets horse in the unsentimental ‘Lean on Pete’

There is painfully little love, except for the warm and compassionate filmmaking itself, in Andrew Haigh’s tender and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama “Lean on Pete.”In his first American film, Haigh, the British director of “45 Years” and “Weekend,” proves every bit as adept at burrowing into fragile human intimacies across a vast Western landscape as he showed in his earlier, more cloistered dramas.He makes precisely tuned, quiet movies that speak vol
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