Jim Sheridan’s film about the Arabian horse (the one that started the British thoroughbred lineage) is based on one of my favourite books as a child. I borrowed it from the library and kept extending the loan because I wanted to keep it! It grabbed me initially because I love horses, and find Arab horses especially fascinating (their beauty, speed, grace, intelligence and their natural docility around children – the desert Arabs used to rear these horses in the tents with their own children). The lifestyle of the people in the story also fascinated me; it starts off with a boy being placed in servitude in the stables of a royal place where he went through a ritual of having his head shaved, and it all seemed very harsh – until he was given the honour of looking after a colt. If the film can capture the atmosphere of that book, it will be brilliant.
Jim Sheridan to direct King of the Wind, Comment below, thank you.
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