2019 · drama · sports
Ride Like a Girl
Directed by Rachel Griffiths1h 38m2019
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Our read: Ride Like a Girl (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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