Gaucho Gaucho

Having just returned from Argentina and ridden on a real ranch with gauchos I was keen to watch this.

I was very disappointed, visually yes it was strong but otherwise it felt so completely staged with almost laughable scenes, (was that the idea?). As I'm experienced around horses some of the scenes were excruciatingly bad - the girl trying to lead the horse by dragging it, no gaucho would do that, the ridiculous scene with the crutches after a potential non existent fall... The staged interactions. Why not let the scenery do the work, be a fly on the wall with them actually working? Perhaps because they wouldn't have got the 'timeless' quality they were so obviously desperate to achieve.

But yes, it looked good.