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Stop the Pounding Heart
Stop the Pounding Heart
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/10
846 Ratings

STOP THE POUNDING HEART

Directed by Roberto Minervini
Italy, Belgium, 2013
Drama, Documentary

Synopsis

Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. When Sara meets Colby, a young amateur bull rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she has ever known.

Synopsis

Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. When Sara meets Colby, a young amateur bull rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she has ever known.

Our take

Reuniting (non) actors from his previous two films, Minervini keeps developing here his delicately ethnographic gaze, while quietly embracing neorealism to depict an America we’re not used to see. A minimalist gem of a love story.