After The Fall: A Cowboy Picks Up The Pieces Of His Former Life In 'The Rider'
Filmmaker Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brother Taught Me) tells the sensitive and searching tale of a young cowboy (Brady Jandreau) confronting his uncertain future.
by Bob Mondello
Apr 12, 2018
2 minutes
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Eight seconds.
That's how long a rodeo cowboy has to stay on a bucking bronco to complete his ride. In writer/director Chloe Zhao's gorgeous and heartbeakingly humane new movie The Rider, she shows us how one such cowboy made it through those eight seconds — only to have his entire life transformed by what happened one second later.
Brady (Brady Jandreau) is a horse-trainer
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