THEthe indissoluble relationship between a pony and a ten -year -old girl It is the plot of the French film Poly by Nicola Vanieraired tonight on Rai 1 at 9.30 pm. An incredible adventure whose small Cecile, after discovering that the pony Poly, the best attraction of the circus, is mistreated by the bad brancalou, He decides to take care of it and organize an escape.
Cécile and Poly they undertake Like this an adventurous journey in the name of twists and turns, which will turn into an initiation path and lay the foundations of an incredible friendship. Poly It is the adaptation of the novel of the same name (in reality a series of 28 books – of which there is also a TV series) of the French writer Cécile Aubry (former author of the novels and the TV series Belle & Sebastien).
Poly: plot of the film on Rai 1 and Raiplay
Cécile (Elisa de Lambert), 10 years, during the summer of 1964 she is forced by her mother Louise to leave Paris To move to a village in the south of France. The girl is not happy with her new reality: He doesn’t like the house, the local children make fun of her and in addition he misses the dad, traveling to Italy.
The situation changes when a passing circus stops in the village. Cécile discovers that the show of the show is Poly, a pony that is mistreated by the perfidious owner. At that point the girl decides to take care of it and organize its escape. Chased by the disturbing director of the Circus Brancalou and the mysterious Victor, Cécile and Poly embark on an adventurous trip in the name of twists and turns which will turn into an initiation path and lay the foundations of an incredible friendship.
The protagonist of “Poly”
Polythe story. From TV series to series of novels to the film
Poly It is the adaptation of the novel of the same name (or of the novels, given that there are 28) that Cécile Aubry has fictionalized from the TV series Poly and the seven stars (of which she is also author), aired in France for the first time in 1961 (in Rai in 1968). The director Nicola Vanier, who had already directed the most famous Belle & Sebastien (Books and TV series always by Aubry) On the close relationship between a female dog and a child, he continues in the sign of the relationship between men and animals. In this case he confronts the relationship between a child and a pony. But he felt the need to modernize the story.
Has first of all transformed the child, protagonist of the series and the novel, into a girl named Cécile, A clear tribute to the writer. «Thanks to the escape of little Cécile, I was able to deal with current issues such as that of women’s emancipation: Cécile’s mother is divorced and is not easy for her, in the 60s, to be accepted in the small village in which she moved, “said the director. In addition, Poly addresses the theme of the treatment reserved for animals, often brutal in a microcosm like that of the circus.
Poly: the cast
To play the protagonist Cécile is Elisa de Lambertdiscovered by the director after viewing over 2500 video auditions of girls aspiring to the role. Louise, the mother, has the face of Julie Gayet, while Patrick Timsit, seen in Dalidainterprets Brancalou, the villain of history. François Cluzet, the protagonist of Almost friends – Intuchablesbears the character of Victor on stage, a scudiero whose identity is known very little.
The other films with horses and girls, a classic
There are many films starring children and horses. Let’s think about The man who whispered horses of 1998 with Robert Redford and a very young Scarlett Johansson, a War Horse (2011) by Steven Spielberg, Which tells the moving story between a boy and his horse, separated from the First World War. To the classic Black Stallion of 1979 and the animated film Spirit – Wild horse of 2002. There is also Italian Wild (2022) by and with Kim Rossi Stuart.