From writer/director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and executive producer Robert Redford, the drama The Mustang tells the story of convict Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a man struggling to come to terms with his violent past. While locked up in a rural Nevada prison, he is required to participate in a state-mandated social rehabilitation program that pairs inmates with wild horses for training, in the hopes that maybe he’ll also be able to rediscovery his own humanity. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actor Jason Mitchell (who plays Henry, a fellow inmate and experienced horse …

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It's about time Matthias Schoenaerts becomes more widely known as a leading man. You might have caught some of his supporting performances in wide releases like Red Sparrow and The Danish Girl, but his latest project, The Mustang, is further proof that Schoenaerts is a true headliner because he delivers an unforgettable and wildly impressive performance in the film. He leads The Mustang as Roman Coleman, a convict who just got out of solitary confinement at a maximum security prison and is reentering the general population, a move that includes getting a job assignment. Roman is sent to the … The post Matthias Schoenaerts on ‘The Mustang’ and Re-Humanizing Humans through Animals appeared first on Collider.

Animal lover? Brace yourself for Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s feature directorial debut, The Mustang. As explained in the opening title cards, wild mustangs freely roaming the United States are being threatened by overpopulation, limited resources and also the privatization of public lands. As a form of population control, the federal government rounds up thousands of these mustangs a year, transports them to holding facilities and then some are euthanized. But, a few hundred of them are actually sent to prisons and there, they are trained by inmates and put up for sale at public auction. In The Mustang, we …