PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Andrew Haigh, director of the film Lean on Pete.
Director Andrew Haigh talks about his latest feature, Lean on Pete, presented in competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. He stopped by our FRED studio in Venice for a chat, discussing such topics as why he doesn’t think that Lean on Pete is a coming of age movie, how he knows how and when to close his movies (“I think it’s a feeling more than an intellectual understanding), and more.
Lean on Pete follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon, where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.
For the officiale page of the film on the festival website, click here.