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Sep 30, 2021 · In this interview, Andrew Haigh discusses some of the similarities between Weekend and Lean on Pete. The dad is a bit of a dick in that story, but he also loves his son. He’s super soft and gentle with him, too, as well as being a dick.
Apr 14, 2018 · Even though, Lean On Pete and 45 Years are clearly set in a very different world and a different context than Looking and Weekend. If I look at my projects going forward, there’s a mixture of projects that very clearly have gay characters and things that don’t.
- Glenn Garner
Mar 29, 2018 · His latest film “Lean on Pete”, an adaptation of a beloved Willy Vlautin novel, looks to honor this venerable cinematic tradition, at least on paper. Though Haigh didn’t quite engage with Vlautin’s book from the lens of “a boy and his horse.”
Apr 5, 2018 · Lean on Pete has more of an epic scope than Haigh’s previous movies, including intimate relationship dramas like Weekend and 45 Years. But the film retains his skill for delving into tiny ...
- Andrew Haigh
Sep 2, 2017 · Writer-director Andrew Haigh has, in his films Weekend and 45 Years, traded in domestic intimacy, closely detailing connections between two people as they navigate emotional quandaries.
Apr 5, 2018 · A boy-and-his-horse drama that's not designed for horse lovers, Lean on Pete is a movie in two parts. The first and better half is melancholy, but with encouraging glimmers of humanity.
May 5, 2018 · A clear-eyed, unsentimental portrait of a young boy’s relationship with an ailing race horse and their epic trip across a broken America to find a stable home, Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete offers a modern spin on America’s founding myth.
