Untamed (2008) poster
2008 · animation · latvian · short

Untamed

Directed by Elaine Bogan1h 28m2008
ElsewhereIMDb5.55kRT48%Metacritic49TMDB7.2571
  • warm
  • brisk
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle animation / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Our read · Untamed (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · latvian · short entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want breezy frontier adventure about a girl bonding with a wild horse.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upanimal harmchild peril

Skip it tonightYou want the original Spirit or find kid westerns too tame.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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